But selling crack is the only sure way he knows to achieve his dream. Champ is trying to do right by his mom and younger brothers, and dreams of reclaiming the only home he and his family have ever shared.
Grace is just out of a drug treatment program, trying to stay clean and get her kids back. Synopsis: The Residue Years switches between the perspectives of a young man, Champ, and his mother, Grace.
“Some people are latecomers to themselves, but who we are will soon enough surround us.” But every step of the way you’re alongside her, watching as she learns to accept, to embrace, to let go, and how the PCT weaves through that.” There are moments where her emotions are so clearly spelled out on the page, and then there are times where you have to read between the lines. I was more interested in how the author used a rather spontaneous journey along the trail to help herself face demons and come to grips with her mother’s death. A longtime lover of the PCT, I already know about the trail from end to end. One review: “I enjoyed it from cover to cover. Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State - and she would do it alone. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Synopsis: At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. ― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail “I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back.”
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