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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	:	Anniversary 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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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

Where to start?First off, I was a bit irritated by the implausibility of the characters' transformations from civilized girls to wild women. After reading The Omnivores Dilemma just a couple months ago, it was hard not to scoff at, say, the pig-hunting episode, or the "I'm gonna teach myself how to shoot a rifle today!" episode, or the ease with which the girls begin identifying edible plants in their yard with nothing but the help of a poorly illustrated field guide. But the real death knell

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

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else.From beauty no road leads to reality. ~Hannah Arendt I waited for over a year to read Into the Forest. In that frame of time, I had imagined this idea in my head of a book filled with controversy and chaos. The reality of what this book was never crossed paths with what I had imagined. It was far better.This story takes place in a post-apocalyptic time but it is not a post-apocalyptic book. This story features an act of incest

This book is weird.For the first 100 pages or so, I loved loved LOVED the story. Its a scary portrayal of the breakdown of America...and the story of a family that lives out in the middle of nowhere, right on the edge of a forest. They end up having to survive on some canned food they harvested from their garden. The dystopian aspect of the story is captivating, horrifying, and poignant. Basically...it half scared the crap out of me, and half made me want to dance around my house hugging

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

this is definitely a novel.i mean, i never thought it was a true story, but i just want to emphasize that decisions characters make in this book are very much suitable for literary purposes; they provide dramatic tension and character development and a story arc, but as far as practical decision-making goes, these sisters fall a little short. and there was a period when i thought, "hey - these girls finally have it together and are taking real steps towards their own survival," only to modify