To the Forest
Alice Meems
, P. Thompson
, Heather Norris
, Rose Hately
, Melissa Poremba
, Aleksandra Sobczak
, Siobhan Laskey
, Mary Therrien
, Shannon Leclerc
, Agnes Marshall
, Patricia Johnson
, Sebastian Schulman
, Heather Sibley
, Barry Kazimer
, cassandra schiemann
, Joan Clare
, Janice Hutchinson
, Anne Baldo
, Catherine Westerberg
, Sandra Furlotte
, Sarah Schwartz
, Lara Maynard
, Joshua Lewis
, Marilyn Stanley
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Lauren Seal
, Suzanne Brooks
, Emma Parker
, Jocelyn Heisel
, Margaret McKay
, Jude Castillo
, Tyra Antle
, Noelle Walsh
, Sandra Perry
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Linda Leitch
, Hoda Montazeri
, Andrea Pole
, Natasa Ilic
, Cathalynn Labonte-Smith
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Janice B Knickle
, Alison Jacques
, Rose Ghaedi
, Carol Anne Turner
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Susan Jang
, Ariane Béland
, Teree Hokanson
, Andrea Gillespie
, Hailey Slaviero
, Deb Philippon
, Elise Van Manen
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Janai Phillips
, Rhona Brinkman
, Deana Bueley
, Elaine Baptie
, Alliah Belza
, Chris Carvalho
, Kaitlyn McIntyre
, Dani Kat
, Claudie Léveillé
, Connie Bennett
, Claire Gear
, Cristina Pejkovic
, Shawna Moodie
, Trish Bowering
, Amber Beardwood
, Blake Patterson
, Meaghan Krygier
, Diane Normandin
, Lynn Bechtel
, Jennifer Beyak
, Donna Gamache
, Sherry Heschuk
, Janet Miller
, Marianne Ward
, Jennifer Morse
, Karen Kendrick
, Christine Lion
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Benita Hartwell
, Shonna Froebel
, Randi Ann Doll
, Paula Ritchie
, Tiffany C
, Susan Terendy
, Patricia McKeown
, Mary Campbell
, Rachel Edmonds
, Janet Meisner
, Paula Adam
, Joe Mitchell
, Robert Hykawy
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, C. Ray
, Derek Davidson
, Debbie Youngman
, Janice Cournoyer
, Shannon Lee
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, M M English
, Denise Duvall
, joy mills
, Nancy Reid
, Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Kim Cappellina
, Ken Gilmour
, Sara Conway
, Kym Marsh
, Karen Nordrum
, Pam Keetch
, Shawn Kazubowski-Houston
, Alex Henderson
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Pamela Bruce
, Nancy Steinhausen
, Gabrielle Veilleux
, Mary Danieli
, Prabh Toor
, Lisa Mallia
, Jessica Gilbert
, Angela Mitchell
, Debra Fisher
, Anitha Thevarajan
, norma haill
, Anndee Newson
, Lauraine Twilley
, Judith Pearson
, Shayla Bradley
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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.
