Description: Set in the near future, this is a powerfully imagined first novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in the Northern California forest. Over 30 miles from the nearest town, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to collapse around them. There is talk of 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. As they come of age, the sisters must learn to abandon their ideas of life in a modern society and adapt accordingly. Their arrival into adulthood is a renegotiation of self to the environment, a reformation of what it means to be human, female, and alive in the forest. Simultaneous Bantam hardcover release.

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