![]() “We went from qualifying for food stamps, which we didn’t apply for because having grown up using food stamps, I just felt too much shame. When “Wild” was released 10 years ago, Strayed and her husband, filmmaker Brian Lindstrom, were $85,000 in credit card debt, she says. In 2014, the book was adapted into an Oscar-nominated movie, starring Reese Witherspoon as Cheryl and Laura Dern as Cheryl’s mother, Bobbi. Strayed was also facing down chaos in her life, including heroin abuse and divorce. Without any previous backpacking experience, at the age of 26, she embarked on the journey to grieve the sudden death of her mother. ![]() “It took a few years for my toenails to be normal and especially those big toenails.” ![]() “The number one question I get about my book is, did my toenails grow back? I lost six of them on my hike,” says Strayed. ![]() “Wild” recounts Strayed’s harrowing three-month, 1,100-mile hike on the Pacific Crest Trail. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The missing documents add baffling question marks. The Kelly Gang story is fragmentary and full of holes at best. The book identifies many ‘missing’ official documents for the first time. ![]() The mythology created by pro-Kelly writers is critically explored, unravelled, and often found wanting. In the various arguments for hero status, many ‘facts' are cited or assumed – but are they truly facts? Or are they distortions (deliberate or accidental) that have twisted the Kelly story into today’s improbable legend? Many new factors and insights are presented, and the recent invention of Ned's NE Victoria 'republic' is debunked. The book examines hundreds of archival documents that fully expose the extent of the gang’s murderous campaign against Victoria police, five of whom were shot. Seldom heard victims of the gang’s activities at last have their say. It spells out the case against Ned and his gang carefully and in previously inaccessible detail. The book is entirely different to all earlier versions of the Kelly legend. This controversial new book forensically examines the myths about the Kelly Gang and will ignite fierce debate about their undeserved ranking as national heroes today. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when a forceful young Perseus interferes, Andromeda's life is set on an entirely new path.Īs Perseus becomes increasingly obsessed with the promise of his own destiny, his heroic journey casts a shadow of violence and destruction across all three women's lives. That is, until the day she finds an injured boy named Perseus in the forest.Īndromeda: When a harsh sandstorm threatens to destroy her nomadic desert tribe's way of life, Andromeda knows that a sacrifice will be required to appease the gods and end the storm. Medusa: As a member of a reclusive band of women who live deep in the woods, known as the Gorgons, Medusa has eschewed all contact with the outside world. It's a harsh new world for a young woman who grew up as a coddled princess, and forging a new life for herself and for her young son Perseus will be the hardest thing she's ever done. Nationally bestselling author of Daughters of Sparta Claire Heywood returns with an imaginative and female-centered reinterpretation of the myth of the great hero Perseus, told through the voices of three women who are sidelined in the traditional version-his mother, Danae his trophy, Medusa and his wife, Andromeda-but whose viewpoints reveal a man who is not, in fact, a hero at all.ĭanae: Banished from her homeland thanks to a prophecy foretelling that her unborn child will one day cause the death of her father, the king of Argos, Danae finds herself stranded, pregnant, and alone in a remote fishing village. ![]() |