Aspen Matis. (2015). Girl in the Woods: A Memoir. Unabridged HarperAudio.

Aspen Matis. 2015. Girl in the Woods: A Memoir. HarperAudio.

Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir. HarperAudio, 2015.

Aspen Matis. Girl in the Woods: A Memoir. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2015.

OverDrive Product Record

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/{BC28C020-CD3E-41AA-8E65-76B78831D240}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0293-1/{BC28C020-CD3E-41AA-8E65-76B78831D240}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0293-1/BC2/8C0/20/{BC28C020-CD3E-41AA-8E65-76B78831D240}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0293-1/BC2/8C0/20/{BC28C020-CD3E-41AA-8E65-76B78831D240}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780062373571
   • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
   • id: audiobook-mp3
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780062373571
   • name: OverDrive Listen
   • id: audiobook-overdrive

mediaType

Audiobook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Aspen Matis

title

Girl in the Woods

dateAdded

2015-09-11T15:57:00Z

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=2351351
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
     • id: 1151

sortTitle

Girl in the Woods A Memoir

crossRefId

2351351

subtitle

A Memoir

id

BC28C020-CD3E-41AA-8E65-76B78831D240

starRating

3

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • duration: 14:23:38
   • fileName: GirlintheWoods_9780062373571_2351351
   • partCount: 17
   • fileSize: 419672270
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780062373571
   • rights:
     1. • type: PlayOnPC
        • value: 1
     2. • type: PlayOnPCCount
        • value: -1
     3. • type: BurnToCD
        • value: 1
     4. • type: BurnToCDCount
        • value: -1
     5. • type: PlayOnPM
        • value: 1
     6. • type: TransferToSDMI
        • value: 1
     7. • type: TransferToNonSDMI
        • value: 1
     8. • type: TransferCount
        • value: -1
     9. • type: CollaborativePlay
        • value: 0
     10. • type: PublicPerformance
         • value: 0
     11. • type: TranscodeToAAC
         • value: 1
   • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: audiobook-mp3
   • onSaleDate: 9/8/2015
   • samples:
     1. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-mp3
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0293-1/2351351-GirlInTheWoods.mp3
     2. • source: From the book
        • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bc28c020-cd3e-41aa-8e65-76b78831d240&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
2. • duration: 14:32:45
   • fileName: GirlintheWoods9780062373571
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 418924034
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780062373571
   • name: OverDrive Listen
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: audiobook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 9/8/2015
   • samples:
     1. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-mp3
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0293-1/2351351-GirlInTheWoods.mp3
     2. • source: From the book
        • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bc28c020-cd3e-41aa-8e65-76b78831d240&.epub-sample.overdrive.com

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Matis, Aspen
   • bioText:

     Aspen Matis is a writer living in Greenwich Village, where she's finishing her degree at The New School and working on a novel.

   • name: Aspen Matis
2. • role: Narrator
   • fileAs: Tucker, Stephanie
   • name: Stephanie Tucker

imprint

HarperAudio

publishDate

2015-09-08T00:00:00-04:00

edition

Unabridged

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

Girl in the Woods

fullDescription

Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada—a coming of age story, a survival story, and a triumphant story of overcoming emotional devastation. On her second night of college, Aspen was raped by a fellow student. Overprotected by her parents who discouraged her from telling of the attack, Aspen was confused and ashamed. Dealing with a problem that has sadly become all too common on college campuses around the country, she stumbled through her first semester—a challenging time made even harder by the coldness of her college's ""conflict mediation"" process. Her desperation growing, she made a bold decision: She would seek healing in the freedom of the wild, on the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail leading from Mexico to Canada.

In this inspiring memoir, Aspen chronicles her journey, a five-month trek that was ambitious, dangerous, and transformative. A nineteen-year-old girl alone and lost, she conquered desolate mountain passes and met rattlesnakes, bears, and fellow desert pilgrims. Exhausted after each thirty-mile day, at times on the verge of starvation, Aspen was forced to confront her numbness, coming to terms with the sexual assault and her parents' disappointing reaction. On the trail and on her own, she found that survival is predicated on persistent self-reliance. She found her strength. After a thousand miles of solitude, she found a man who helped her learn to love and trust again—and heal.

Told with elegance and suspense, Girl in the Woods is a beautifully rendered story of eroding emotional and physical boundaries to reveal the truths that lie beyond the edges of the map.

reviews

1. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     July 15, 2015
     Finding redemption after trauma. Matis sets up the book as a narrative of salvation. On her second night at college, she was raped in her dorm room. Understandably devastated, she dropped out after her freshman year and decided to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, a la Cheryl Strayed in Wild. Matis periodically reaches back to her childhood in a leafy suburb of Massachusetts, the daughter of two Boston lawyers, to attempt to explain a nagging feeling of not belonging: friends at school teased her for the unfashionable clothes her mother bought her; the girls in her cabin at sleepaway camp teased her; her mother insisted on dressing her until she was well into her teens. Unfortunately, the author is repetitive ("It was a new day, a beautiful one, and I was the director of my life..."; "This time, I'd become the director of my life"), which causes the narrative to bloat (by nearly 100 pages). She also comes off as tone-deaf when she describes her journey on the trail, a trip funded by her parents: "The PCT would end, and I felt panicked. I'd be truly homeless, directionless"-though she also realized that she "could not return to the person she'd picked for me to be. My relationship with my mother trapped me in the identity of a child." Matis writes vividly of the culture of the PCT-the special treats the locals put out for hikers to find, called "trail magic," or the "trail angels" who host hikers in small towns along the way-and she is bold in her willingness to expose her psychic wounds. However, it's difficult to remain sympathetic to her struggles when she widens her frame of victimhood to include her feelings of unattractiveness, her efforts to pry herself from her mother's smothering grip, and her inability to put in contact lenses or swallow pills. A memoir of self-discovery by a young writer who still has more work to do.

     COPYRIGHT(2015) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

2. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     September 1, 2015
     Matis' world was turned on its head on her second night at Colorado College, when she was raped by a fellow student. When the college did nothing about the assault, save for moving her assailant out of her dorm, Matis toughed it out for a year before deciding to drop out in favor of hiking the famous Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada. When Matis starts out in 2008, she's full of grief and anger over the assault and steeped in resentment toward her family for their failure to support her after the rape. Matis immediately joins up with two male hikers, and the party of three becomes a party of two when Matis and one of the hikers, nicknamed Icecap, become romantically involved. But the relationship sours, and Matis finds herself hiking alone on the trail, creating time for introspection but also leaving her vulnerable to danger. Comparisons to Wild (2012) are unavoidable, but readers who decide to accompany Matis on the PCT will find themselves in for an engrossing, often suspenseful journey with a rewarding outcome.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

popularity

185

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/bc28c020-cd3e-41aa-8e65-76b78831d240/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json

id

bc28c020-cd3e-41aa-8e65-76b78831d240

starRating

3

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/{BC28C020-CD3E-41AA-8E65-76B78831D240}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0293-1/{BC28C020-CD3E-41AA-8E65-76B78831D240}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0293-1/BC2/8C0/20/{BC28C020-CD3E-41AA-8E65-76B78831D240}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0293-1/BC2/8C0/20/{BC28C020-CD3E-41AA-8E65-76B78831D240}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: Biography & Autobiography
2. • value: Sociology
3. • value: Sports & Recreations
4. • value: Nonfiction

publishDateText

09/08/2015

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9780062291066

mediaType

Audiobook

shortDescription

Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada—a coming of age story, a survival story, and a triumphant story of overcoming emotional devastation. On her second night of college, Aspen was raped by a fellow student. Overprotected by her parents who discouraged her from telling of the attack, Aspen was confused and ashamed. Dealing with a problem that has sadly become all too common on college campuses around the country, she stumbled through her first semester—a challenging time made even harder by the coldness of her college's ""conflict mediation"" process. Her desperation growing, she made a bold decision: She would seek healing in the freedom of the wild, on the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail leading from Mexico to Canada.

In this inspiring memoir, Aspen chronicles her journey, a five-month trek that was ambitious, dangerous, and transformative. A nineteen-year-old girl alone and lost, she conquered...

sortTitle

Girl in the Woods A Memoir

crossRefId

2351351

subtitle

A Memoir

publisher

HarperAudio

bisacCodes

1. • code: BIO022000
   • description: Biography & Autobiography / Women
2. • code: SOC060000
   • description: Social Science / Sexual Abuse & Harassment
3. • code: SPO018000
   • description: Sports & Recreation / Hiking