📚 In My Boots: A Memoir of Five Million Steps Along the Appalachian Trail
Wednesday, April 9th
Begins at 7:00 PM
Lansing Community Library, 27 Auburn Rd, Lansing, NY 14882
When Amanda K. Jaros learns about the 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail after college, she walks away from a sheltered life dominated by an angry and volatile father and does something unexpected: spends six months backpacking. Alone.
In My Boots recounts a challenging physical journey following the trail from the windy balds of the South to above the tree line in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
The journey is also emotionally transformative as this twenty-three-year-old leaves behind the compliant and scared girl she once was. With each step away from her damaged childhood, each new friend, each trail town, she comes to understand that to succeed on the trail, and in life, it turns out, the path she walks must be her own.
“In this book, as Jaros writes, wilderness consumes, but equally at the forefront is Jaros’s own psychological and emotional environment, which makes for a startling, brave debut.”
—Amy Butcher, Author of Mothertrucker: Finding Joy on the Loneliest Road in America
Amanda K. Jaros is the author of 100 Things to Do in Ithaca Before You Die and editor of Labor of Love: A Literary Mama Staff Anthology. When not writing, she can be found on a trail somewhere. She lives in Ithaca, New York, with her husband and son, where she serves her community as a County Legislator. Find her at amandakjaros.com, and on Instagram @amandajaroschampion
