![]() ![]() The conceptual shift that allows them to abandon the idea of their house and of cultivating produce in favour of a roofed-over redwood stump and the foods of the forest is helped by Nell's reading about how indigenous Californians used to live. Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva. ![]() But although Eva sticks to her dance practice and Nell to her studies, the demands of the present push these aspirations into irrelevance.īy the time two men have strayed in and out of their lives, leaving one sister pregnant and both terrified of the violence beyond their clearing, the depths of the forest are beginning to look less threatening than the wilderness of what was formerly civilisation. 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. Their Christmas presents symbolise an expected return to the lives they were planning: renovated ballet shoes for Eva, a book of blank pages for Nell. ![]() Now alone, they face the combined consequences of personal loss and more distant social calamities. ![]() They are used to living in a clearing at the end of a forestry road, but not to being without the support of parents, electricity, transport. The novel opens with two young sisters, Nell and Eva, struggling to celebrate Christmas in their isolated childhood home in California. ![]()
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