Personally, I appreciated all the little hints that their parents-particularly their father-have good politics: his brief speeches are punctuated with cynical anti-capitalist laments, and there’s a book about the Spanish Civil War mentioned in passing. I caught no grievous errors of representation. There isn’t a ton to discuss about this book from an anarchist perspective. (Which is to say, there are some spoilers ahead.) If you want the spoiler-free review, it’s as simple as what lies above: this is a damn good book and worth reading. It’s a book about death and love and it’s a book about the forest. It’s about coming of age in a society that is, slowly and surely, disintegrating. You know, classic post-apocalyptic stuff. My usual preference is for huge sweeping sagas of reformed societies and shantytowns, or the epic adventures of a roaming band of misfits who just want to survive. Into the Forest is a post-apocalyptic story unlike any other I’ve read. Their mother dies of cancer a year before the power and telephones begin to fail, and soon the girls’ tiny world just shrinks and shrinks. Nell and Eva are two teenage sisters, homeschooled in Northern California. I’m glad I decided to believe him, even if I’m not sure he was telling the truth. I didn’t want to read something as doom and gloom as The Road. “Is it going to be like The Road?” I asked. “Have you read Into the Forest?” he asked. “Hey,” I said to my friend, “what book should I read?”
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