Novels
- Into the Forest (1996)
- Windfalls (2003)
- Still Time (2015)
Non fiction
- The Life Within (1991)
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Jean Hegland Books Overview
Into the Forest
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.
Windfalls
Lush, compelling, and unforgettable an epic tale of motherhood and an urgent narrative of vulnerability and power from the author of the acclaimed Into the Forest. Windfalls is a passionate story of motherhood both tender and tough that takes an unflinching look at the many choices facing every woman. Young and pregnant, Cerise and Anna make very different decisions about their lives. While teenage 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 Windfalls progresses, Cerise and Anna seem destined to approach each other, their stories dramatically interwoven. When finally their lives intersect, each woman emerges stronger, inspired by what she sees in the other, changed by what she learns. Jean Hegland’s debut novel Into the Forest was ‘beautifully written…
impeccably authentic’ Kirkus Reviews. In its successor, she delves even deeper into the human heart, taking an unflinching look at the choices facing every woman. A remarkable book from an accomplished writer, Windfalls is hard to put down and impossible to forget.
The Life Within
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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