âA raw and honest journey of addiction, love, trauma, and redemptionâgrounded in a deep love of place and all things mustang. The best memoirs reveal the deeply personal in order to see the larger world with renewed clarity and insightâthis is one such book. As Wilder moves from heroin to horses, we see a substantive journey of recovery and strengthâand ultimately, of resilience.â âLAURA PRITCHETT, author of Stars Go Blue
âFor too long, the lone cowboy myth has corralled the American West in the barbed wires of dominion and destruction. Tangled in that telling are women and mustangsâtheir wildness, togetherness, and vulnerability. In Desert Chrome, Wilder bucks against a story as desiccated as the deserts she has dwelled inâkicking hard enough to free what was bound, to redeem what was broken. Listen now, to the thundering of hearts and hooves. Theyâre coming for us, at last.â âAMY IRVINE, author of Air Mail and Desert Cabal
âDesert Chrome journeys through parched valleys, on wild rivers, and into deep rock canyons on a unique quest. In this authentic, hard-won account of her life, Wilder finds the warm, true hearts sheâs been seeking and that deserve our humanity, healing, and a hell of a lot better future than theyâve been dealt. Thereâs a quiet heroine at the center of this story, yes, pointing toward a beautiful world. It can be ours if weâll love better, lean closer, and listen to the voices, like Wilderâs own, well worth heeding from birth.â âREBECCA LAWTON, author of The Oasis This Time
âA powerful coming-of-age story, into the age of a womanâs strongest power, when, with complete awareness of her past, she can, with might and strength, will the future before her. Wilder writes with all the love, wisdom, and courage it takes to make positive changes for the western landscape, horses, and readers.â âCMARIE FUHRMAN, author of Camped Beneath the Dam