Now alone, they face the combined consequences of personal loss and more distant social calamities. They are used to living in a clearing at the end of a forestry road, but not to being without the support of parents, electricity, transport.
I would absolutely read another book by this debut author.The novel opens with two young sisters, Nell and Eva, struggling to celebrate Christmas in their isolated childhood home in California. I loved the writing- it was poetic, and incredibly descriptive without feeling overwritten. Nope, and so after all of "that" what was a four star book for me fell to two stars, and I just couldn't ever recover from that randomness!īeside this paragraph long weirdness, which when I think about the book I'm going to pretend didn't happen. And even more strangely, afterward, it was like it didn't happen! Never mentioned again! I don't know, I don't know - ahhh - I'm lucky enough to have no idea how those kinds of things play out but just - blah. Because, I don't have any sisters, but I have two brothers and - like, I can't even finish this sentence - I'm too creeped out! I have a hard time believing that incest can just happen randomly like that. I flipped back like twenty pages and reread thinking I MUST have missed some sign that this sister incest moment was coming- but nope. Living remotely, particularly in a post apocalypse, creates its own difficulties and dangers, and Eva and Nell are forced to sacrifice parts of themselves for their survival. The family is about 30 miles from town, so when society starts to fall apart for a variety of reasons - disease, energy crisis, political unrest- they are in a unique position to live off the land. Super simple plot summary of "Into the Forest" - Nell and Eva are sisters living remotely with their parents outside of Redwood, California.
It's just good common sense : ) Well, I just finished reading "Into the Forest" and feels - but mostly confusion and a little bit of frustration. I'd never heard of the novel "Into the Forest" until I saw the trailer for the film adaptation, but after watching it I knew I had to read the book! After all, that is my ( often broken) book to movie adaptation rule - solid effort must be put into reading the book before watching the movie.
"Oh, I will always remember that moment when, even with the universe spackled above us, bright with an infinity of stars and dark with infinite space, it was impossible for me to believe that Ptolemy wasn't right, that our own Earth, our little tribe, and Eli's hand on my waist were not the center of everything there was." - Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
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