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Into the Forest

Jean Hegland

Paperback | Pages: 243 pages

Rating: 3.8 | 10949 Users | 1423 Reviews

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Title	:	Into the Forest
Author	:	Jean Hegland
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 243 pages
Published	:	September 1st 1998 by Dial Press Trade Paperback (first published August 18th 1996)
Categories	:	Fiction. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Young Adult

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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. 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. No single event precedes society's fall. 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. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other. 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.

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Original Title:	Into the Forest
ISBN:	0553379615 (ISBN13: 9780553379617)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Nominee for Fiction (Finalist) (1997), James Tiptree Jr. Award Nominee for Longlist (1996)

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Ratings: 3.8 From 10949 Users | 1423 Reviews

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A poignant, sensual and carefully written book that will remain quietly in my mind for a long time to come. What strikes me, why I gave it a fifth star, is how it has remained relevant, fresh, shocking and provoking fifteen years after it was written. The United States in 2010 is closer to the brink than Ms Hegland envisioned in 1995; it is not much of a stretch to imagine a country that simply can't afford to pay its bills, where civil war erupts between political parties, where disease cannot

4.25/5 This was so beautifully written. It felt so real and harsh but also hopeful. I cried hard two times. I honestly dont know how to properly organize my thoughts about this book. Its just really really good. The only reason its not 5 stars is because the format this story is told is like writing in a journal and so there are no chapters and I was thrown off at first because I didnt know when to pause.

I read this book in two sittings, and I couldn't put it down. First, I could relate to the homeschooling/ unschooling in the story, as my family homeschooled for 12 years. Everything the girls (mainly Nell) learned, she learned on her own, through her own interests, from books, from trial and error, from invention. I found it all fascinating and believable, and often enviable. It is the first fiction book I've read about unschooling and it delivered! Also, I felt that the way the world was

This will be a hard one to review. I actually met Jean Hegland. She doesn't live too far away outside of Sebastopol, in northern California. The fictional town of Redwood reminds me of Sebastopol.So first you have to wrap your mind around a society which is falling apart: natural disasters, disease, government infrastructure collapsing, etc.There is a family who lives about 30 miles from the town of Redwood, as as things start to collapse they learn to cope in their individual ways. As time goes

Nell and Eve are precocious teenagers living with their anti-establishment parents in the middle of a redwood forest. Their contact with the outside world is sporadic, so it takes them a while to realize that civilization is crumbling around them. Hegland is vague about the reasons--a far-off war, new strains of disease, terrorist attacks on US soil. (She wrote this in 1996, when all of this was less hackneyed.) But after a few seasons of this, the family is left without electricity, internet,

This is a beautifully written book about two teenaged sisters who are left to fend for themselves after surviving the death of both parents. The older sister Nell paints a lovely portrait of a family who live by their own rules, on a large plot of land 30 miles from the nearest town. The girls have a free range education at home, roaming the forest, following their own interests until slowly things begin to change. A series of events leaves the girls stranded on their homestead, surviving on

My final rating is a 4.5/5, only a few slight things took away from this being a perfect novel for me. It 100% appealed to my earth mama senses and while slower on action and dialogue than I was expecting, I didn't get bored once.