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Jean hegland books5/30/2023 ![]() 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. 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. 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. “The absence of knowing is what’s going to be difficult for lots of people. ![]() With all forms of mass communication gone besides rumour and Chinese whispers, humans are left very much in the dark. One day the power goes out-with a whimper, not a bang-and then it simply never comes back. Into the Forest haunts with its larger vision of a world in collapse, made all the more affecting because we’re told so little about it. See Dragonfly’s blog post about the movie based off the book. ![]() It is currently a movie directed by Ellen Page, airing June 3, 2016. ![]() This novel, published in 1998, won the Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Nominee for Fiction (Finalist) (1997), and James Tiptree Jr. ![]()
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