Into the Forest is the tale of these two sisters and how they endure - the threat of starvation, the loss of their mother to cancer and their father to an accidental death, the threat of desperate intruders, and most of all, the internal struggle to fend off despair, and the tenuous bond between two sisters.įrom the first page, I was hooked by Jean Hegland’s lyrical prose and the beautifully honest narration of the seventeen year-old protagonist, Nell. For the most part the small family goes on with their lives and endures, until an accident kills their father, leaving Nell and Eva truly alone in the world. Torn by economic depression and commitments to wars overseas, the fragile nation’s infrastructure breaks under these pressures, leaving society in shambles. In their isolated home sheltered by the forest, Nell, Eva and their father live quietly through the crumbling of civilization. Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale, Into the Forest is a mesmerizing and thought-provoking novel of hope and despair set in a frighteningly plausible near-future America. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found.
Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home. Why did I read this book: I love apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and saw this book while browsing the section on amazon. Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel.
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