But I'm strong enough to be that voice for her. So whereas I'm sure my mom-I don't want to speak for her because I don't think that's fair. But the timing of that just lends itself as evidence how prevalent this is and how much it stays behind closed doors and how important it is to open those doors. This book was completed before this ever happened. Obviously people are giving attention to this as well because of how much the issues of domestic violence are on social media, from the Ray Rice incident and so many different things. The converted bus in the Alaskan wilderness where Christopher McCandless perished in 1992. I think it's a lesson that needs to be out there.
Chris's story is an unbelievably powerful example of the devastating effects that domestic violence can have on children and on families. In doing so, she went from being my father's primary target to his accomplice. And she wasn't able, unfortunately, to be strong enough to find that courage and to be that voice for others and to get herself and her children out of that situation. My mother used to speak to me on a daily basis about how she wanted to help battered women and she wanted to help children and she wanted to help people that were in the same situation that we were in. I really want this book to help other people find their voice. Obviously it took me 20 years to write this book, and I get why they hold it in. I understand how people suffer in silence that suffer from domestic violence. The media and people will automatically gravitate to the shocking revelations about domestic violence that was present in our household. Because I can't imagine not doing everything possible to protect my children. But it changed my level of acceptance and forgiveness. It didn't change it as far as what the facts are and the experiences. I realized it was time to share that with as many people as possible.Īnother huge reason that now was the right time is I'm a mom. Those experiences made me appreciate that I have something important to share. I've been fortunate to witness such overwhelming reactions from countless people I've been able to offer a new perspective to. But I hear from people all around the world, and I've worked with students all across the country, where Into the Wild is required reading. By sharing my story, I'm filling in the blanks of his-things I've learned from Chris and things I've applied to my life. Throughout those years, I've come to understand how important it is that people have Chris's entire story. Why now? Why is now the right time to make this whole story public?
It's been more than 20 years since Chris's death. This interview has been lightly condensed for clarity and length. "I really want this book to help other people find their voice." The author kept these details private for decades-even as Into the Wild was turned into a major 2007 film-but "I found my voice through this process," McCandless told Newsweek. The Wild Truth chronicles a childhood marked by domestic violence at the hands of an abusive father and an enabling mother, and by doing so, it offers a poignant look at Christopher McCandless's life and death from the person who knew and understood him the most. The answer, McCandless suggests, has much to do with events that took place years before her brother's 1990 severing of ties and 1992 death. What drove McCandless to up and leave his comfortable, upper-middle-class existence, abandoning his family for remote wilderness, in the first place?
But there's a slightly different one at the center of The Wild Truth, the new memoir by the late adventurer's younger sister, Carine McCandless. The question still puzzles and haunts, even now, nearly two decades after Jon Krakauer detailed the Alaskan explorer's doomed journey in Into the Wild.
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