Life can be challenging: your partner betrays you; a family member passes away; you are unable to pay your obligations. However, it may also be really wonderful: you've had the sex of your life, you land your dream job, you pluck up the confidence to pen your novel. People experience the complete and wonderful range of life every day all across the world, but occasionally some guidance is needed. For a number of years, Cheryl Strayed served as a popular but anonymous online Agony Aunt. But unlike most Agony Aunts, this one's counsel was based on genuine compassion and informed by a wealth of first-hand knowledge ? knowledge that was frequently heartwarming, frequently humorous, and occasionally devastating. After overcoming her own demons while crossing the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed sat down to answer the letters of the frightened, the anxious, the confused; and with each gem-like correspondence - of which the best are collected in this volume - she proved to be the perfect guide for those who had got a little lost in life.