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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	:	Special 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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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,

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

I am a fan of apocalyptic fiction, and this one started out ok; unfortunately, it ended really poorly. I liked the fact that the sisters were isolated. And I actually think there reactions to the end of the world as they know it is probably how a lot of people would react - with a bit a denial and an unreasonable hope that things will get better soon.I found the characters pretty unlikeable however. Both Eve and Nell were naive and ignorant in their own ways. This made them fairly true to life

This became one of my favorite books as soon as I read it; I was totally immersed while reading and continue to dwell on this book. I almost gave it 4 vs. 5 stars though, because I didnt like the end. But, I realize, its not that I thought the end was poorly done; it was just difficult for me to agree with aspects of the decisions made. The fact that certain happenings were so painful for me, shows how powerful this book seemed to me. This is a beautifully told story about 2 sisters who must

This one was fraught with aggravatingly passive and naive characters in unrealistic situations. I found myself skimming over entire sections of Nells narrative, in a number of places. The fathers never ending MacGyver of a workshop was also frustrating - at points. Overall, I am glad that I read it as I was intrigued by the film and found the subject matter fascinating. I liked most of the story, with some head-shakes and guffaws peppered throughout.

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

*4.25/5*THIS BOOK WAS SO GREAT. The writing was so beautiful and the descriptions were gorgeous and haunting and made the characters and images leap off the page. My only issue was the way the story was told: through journal entries that Nell wrote. I feel like if the story had been told in third person it would have given a more complete picture of what the two sisters went through, and would be more realistic than Nell constantly writing in a journal despite all of the other things keeping her