Author

Publication

1998 - Bantam Books, New York, Oregon

Language

English

Word Count

60,250 words, Guess

Page Count

241 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780553379617
  • ISBN-100553379615
  • LibraryThing95305
  • Goodreads86236
  • Library of Congress Control Number96033919
and 4 more

Classifications

  • LCCPS3558.E419 I58 2005
  • DDC813/.54

Description

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.

Subjects

Topics

SistersFictionTeenage girlsSisters, fictionWilderness survivalCalifornia, fictionCalifornia, Northern -- Fiction

Other Editions

  • Into the forestBantam Books1998-01-01
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