Driven: A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back

For fans of Wild, a memoir of one woman's road to hope following her troubled brother's death, told through the series of cars that transported her.

Growing up in a blue-collar, Midwestern family, Melissa Stephenson longed for escape. Her wanderlust was an innate reaction to the powerful personalities around her, and came too from her desire to find a place in the world where her artistic ambitions wouldn't be thwarted. She found in automobiles the promise of a future.

From a lineage of sec...