![]() ![]() I spent a lot of time thinking about how to compassionately, fairly and accurately portray my family, and I considered them often as I revised. My relationship with my parents means so tremendously much to me they have been truly wonderful, especially since my husband and I broke up. It’s an awful puzzle to write a memoir: you have to portray the people you love and how they shaped you, but you don’t want to hurt them. ![]() Girl in the Woods is very honest about the rape, your relationship with your parents and those on the trail: how does it feel publishing something so truthful, knowing that the people depicted may read it? I caught up with Aspen to discuss her book her gruelling five month hike along the PCT and the strange disappearance of her husband, Justin Matis. Six years later 25-year-old Aspen Matis is a celebrated anti-rape campaigner, New York Times contributor and best-selling author, with her compelling and brutally honest memoir: Girl in the Woods. Alone and just 19-years-old Matis survived extreme weather, dehydration, starvation, crippling illness, all manner of dangerous animals, and abduction on the walk. What she did next, many may find unfathomable: she asked her attacker to stay the night.Īccused of fabricating the assault by both the college and her attacker, Matis dropped out and embarked on a cleansing 2,650-mile trek from Mexico to Canada, along the Pacific Crest Trail. ![]() ![]() On her second night at Colorado College, Aspen Matis was sexually assaulted by a fellow student. ![]()
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