13 September Reads That Will Fit Your Every Mood

On her second day of college, Aspen Matis was raped by a fellow student. After struggling through the rest of the semester and feeling completely alone, she fled to the Mexican border, where she began a 2,650-mile walk through the desert, all the way to the mountains of Canada. Her memoir, Girl in the Woods, chronicles her five-month journey that was both dangerous and transformative as she was forced to face and overcome many obstacles from her past.

Out Sept. 8