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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Matis, Aspen.     Subjects     Matis, Aspen     Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.     Rape victims -- United States -- Biography.     Rape victims -- Rehabilitation -- United States.     Abused women -- United States -- Biography.     Hiking -- Pacific Crest Trail -- Anecdotes.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Matis, Aspen.       by title:      Girl in the woods : ...       by call number:      362.883 M433g     Search the Web     Matis, Aspen.     Matis, Aspen     Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.     Rape victims -- United States -- Biography.     Rape victims -- Rehabilitation -- United States.     Abused women -- United States -- Biography.     Hiking -- Pacific Crest Trail -- Anecdotes.       MARC Display

Girl in the woods : a memoir / Aspen Matis. by Matis, Aspen. HarperCollins, 2015. Call #: 362.883 M433g Subjects Matis, Aspen   Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.   Rape victims -- United States -- Biography.   Rape victims -- Rehabilitation -- United States.   Abused women -- United States -- Biography.   Hiking -- Pacific Crest Trail -- Anecdotes. ISBN:  9780062291066 Description:  x. 372 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm. Summary:  "In 2008, Aspen Matis left behind her quaint Massachusetts town for a school two thousand miles away. Eager to escape her childhood as the sheltered baby girl of her family, Aspen wanted to reinvent herself at college. She hoped that far from home she'd meet friends who hadn't known her high school meekness; she would explore thrilling newfound freedom, blossom, and become a confident adult. But on her second night on campus, all those hopes were obliterated when Aspen was raped by a fellow student. The academic year commenced; Aspen felt alone now, devastated. She stumbled through her first college semester. Her otherwise loving and supportive parents discouraged her from speaking of the attack; her university's 'conflict mediation' process for handling sexual assaults was callous--then ineffectual. Aspen was confused, ashamed, and uncertain about how to deal with a problem that has--disturbingly--become common at institutions of higher learning throughout the country. Her desperation growing, she made a bold decision: she fled. She dropped out and sought healing in the freedom of the wild, on the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail leading from Mexico to Canada. In this important and inspiring memoir, Aspen chronicles an ambitious five-month trek that was as dangerous as it was transformative. Forced to survive on her own for the first time, squarely facing her trauma and childhood, she came to realize that the rape was not the only shameful burden she carried with her as she walked. She found herself on a new expedition: to confront--and overcome--the confines that had bound her since long before her second night at college."--From publisher. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Bedford Public Library Adult Nonfiction 362.883 M433g Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 362.883 M433g Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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