The key missing piece of Jon Krakauer's multi million, multi
territory bestseller and widely acclaimed Sean Penn film Into the
Wild is finally revealed by his best friend and sister, Carine. The
story of Chris McCandless, who gave away his savings, hitchhiked to
Alaska, walked into the wilderness alone, and starved to death in
1992, fascinated not just New York Times bestselling author Jon
Krakauer, but the rest of the nation too. Krakauer's book and a
Sean Penn film skyrocketed Chris McCandless to worldwide fame, but
the real story of his life and his journey has not yet been told -
until now. Carine McCandless, Chris's sister, featured in both the
book and film, was the person with whom he had the closest bond,
and who witnessed firsthand the dysfunctional and violent family
dynamic that made Chris willing to embrace the harsh wilderness of
Alaska. Growing up in the same troubled and volatile household that
sent Chris on his fatal journey into the wild, Carine finally
reveals the broader and deeper reality about life in the McCandless
family. For decades, Carine and Chris's parents, a successful
aerospace engineer and his beautiful wife, raised their children in
the tony suburbs of Northern Virginia. But behind closed doors, her
father beat and choked her mother. He whipped Carine and Chris with
his belt. He cursed them, belittled their accomplishments, and told
them they were nothing without him. Carine and Chris hid under the
stairs, hoping to avoid his wrath. They were teenagers before they
learned they were conceived while their father was still married
and having babies with his first wife, who finally summoned the
courage to leave him after he broke her back in a fight. In the
20-plus years since the tragedy of Chris's death, she has searched
for some kind of redemption. But in this touching and deeply
personal memoir, she reveals how she has learned that real
redemption can only come from speaking the truth. Finally, she has
found the truth not just in her brother's story, but also her own.
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