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To the Forest
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $17.95
ISBN13: 9781552454633
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: Jun 20 2023
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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When a family is forced to return to the mother's childhood home, she seeks meaning in her ancestral roots and the violent beauty of the natural world.
Fleeing the city at the beginning of the pandemic, two families are cramped together in a small century-old country house. Winter seeps through the walls, the wallpaper is peeling, and mice make their nest in the piano. Without phones or internet, they turn to the outdoors, where a new language unfolds, a language of fireflies and clover. The five children explore nature and its treasures, while our narrator, Anaïs, turns to the eccentric neighbours and her own family history to find peace and meaning in the middle of her life.
To the Forest is a field guide to a quieter life, a call to return to the places where we can reweave the threads of memory, where existence waltzes with death, where we can recapture what it means to be alive.
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