A feminist/ecological/survival story. Recently orphaned and completely isolated, teenagers Nell and Eva live alone in the forest, struggling for normality in a post-holocaust world in which electricity is a thing of the past and the outside world a distant memory.

Into the Forest

Hegland, Jean

Science Fiction & Fantasy

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

This is the powerful new novel from the critically acclaimed author of "Into The Forest". It is the 1970s, and in a small town in Indiana, Anna, a young art student, works alone in her darkroom, mesmerised by the images emerging before her. Photography is her passion, her obsession, until one terrible miscalculation. Thousands of miles away in California, Cerise, a lonely teenager, battles with puberty. As her body betrays her, growing hair and sprouting breasts, which attract attention, she seeks comfort in the most desperate and risky of ways. Facing the same dilemma, Anna and Cerise make different choices. Choices which shape their lives forever and, many years later, bring them together. Utterly engrossing and profoundly moving, Jean Hegland's second novel is a powerful exploration of the passions which drive us - and the lengths to which we will go for love. Praise for "Into The Forest": 'An intensely moving novel - a beguiling and haunting tale of redemption' - "Independent on Sunday". 'Extremely impressive' - "The Times". 'One of the most mesmerizing of debuts - intense and sparkling with poignant imagination' - "Publishing News". Author Bio: Jean Hegland was born in Washington State, but now lives near Healdsburg, California on 55 acres of second-growth forest with her husband and three children. As well as raising and home-schooling her children, she teaches English and Creative Writing at Santa Rosa Junior College, and is currently writing her third novel. Her highly-praised first novel, "Into The Forest", was published in 1998.

Windfalls

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Arrow

Into The Forest

Once in a generation we open a new book to discover a voice and a vision that have the power to change the way we look at ourselves and our world. These are the novels we read, remember, and return to again and again: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, and now, from Jean Hegland, an extraordinary fiction debut...Into the Forest. Eva, eighteen, and Nell, seventeen, are sisters, adolescents on the threshold of womanhood—and for them anything should be possible. But even as Eva prepares for an audition with the San Francisco Ballet and Nell dreams of her first semester at Harvard, their lives are turned upside down and their dreams are pushed into the shadows. In a nation suddenly without electricity or communications, Eva is compelled to dance alone to the music of memory, and Nell's education consists of reading the encyclopedia, devouring knowledge as if it were her last meal. Theirs is an age of darkness and terror.... A distant war rages overseas. Resources society had depended on, such as gas and electricity, are no longer available. Riots spread through the inner cities, while deadly viral infections spread across the countryside. Isolated in their home in the northern California woods, Eva and Nell live in a world without television or phones, in a time of suspicion and superstition, of anger, hunger, and fear. Perhaps one day the lights—and their dreams—will return, but orphaned by their parents' deaths and by society, Eva and Nell have been left to forage through the forest, and through their past, for the keys to survival. As they blaze a path into the forest and into the future, they become pioneers and pilgrims--not only creatures of the new world, but the creators of it. Into the Forest is the gripping, unforgettable story of these remarkable sisters as they struggle to redefine themselves and their life together. It is a passionate and poignant tale of stirring sensuality, chilling insight, and profound inspiration—a novel that will move you and surprise you and touch you to the core.

United States

Bantam]

Follows the experiences of two young and pregnant women: Cerise, who opts to raise her baby and faces painful challenges, including the ostracism of others, the death of her child, and homelessness, and Anna, who chooses to terminate her pregnancy and moves on to college and eventual motherhood. 35,000 first printing.

Windfalls: A Novel

Atria

The acclaimed author of Into the Forest mines our fears and explores our capacity to love in this epic tale of modern motherhood. Young and pregnant, Cerise and Anna make very different decisions about how to direct their lives. While teenaged Cerise struggles to support herself and her young daughter, Anna finishes college, marries, and later gives birth to two daughters of her own. After the birth of her second child, a tragic accident tears Cerise's life apart, and she loses her already tenuous position in society. As the story progresses--and Cerise's and Anna's lives interweave and inexorably approach each other--both women are dramatically, forever changed. Unforgettable, awe-inspiring, and grippingly honest, Windfalls is a daring and mesmerizing tale.

Atria Books

The appeal of "Children's Letters to God" is timeless, and universal. New for the year 2000 is award-winning illustrator Leanne Franson, who gives the calendar a completely fresh look with painterly watercolors. Shrink-wrapped.

Children's Letters to God: A Calendar for 2000

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Workman Publishing

This special book is for every woman who has ever been pregnant, or is now experiencing her first pregnancy, as well as all those hoping to better understand pregnancy's powerful feelings and events-the joy, the pain, the wonder, the bonding, the miracle of new life!

The Life Within: Celebration of a Pregnancy

Parenting & Relationships

Humana

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 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.

Calyx Books

This special book is for every woman who has ever been pregnant, or is now experiencing her first pregnancy, as well as all those hoping to better understand pregnancy's powerful feelings and events-the joy, the pain, the wonder, the bonding, the miracle of new life!

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Into the Forest

Windfalls

Into the Forest

Windfalls: A Novel

Windfalls

Children's Letters to God: A Calendar for 2000

The Life Within: Celebration of a Pregnancy

Into The Forest

Into The Forest

The Life Within: Celebration of a Pregnancy