Ellis’s twin boys act up, the incessant call of a raven and Ellis’s own wrought emotions cause her to forget that she had put her baby daughter’s car seat carrier onto the ground next to the van before dealing with one of her son’s tantrums. The visit to the woods is destined to be a tragic disaster. She had just discovered that Jonah, her husband, was cheating on her with another woman. This forest had always soothed Ellis’s aching spirit and had been her only refuge during her often brutal childhood.īut for once, her idyllic surroundings could do nothing to ease Ellis’s turbulent thoughts and anguished feelings of betrayal. Her newborn daughter, Viola, lies tranquilly in her child carrier. (Apr.The Light Through the Leaves by Glendy VanderahĮllis watches distractedly as her twin sons are catching tadpoles from the river that runs through Wild Wood – a forested area close to the trailer park she had grown up in. Readers are left with a memorable story of love’s healing power. Despite an ending that resolves complex conflicts too quickly and neatly, Vanderah elicits wonder in Raven’s strange world. Meanwhile, several years after Viola’s disappearance, Ellis has achieved sobriety and begun a new life running a nursery in Florida, and eventually the stories of Ellis and Raven converge. Raven longs for human connection and briefly finds it with a group of boys who encourage her to visit their school, prompting Raven’s mother to place her on a strict lockdown. In a parallel narrative set in the Washington wilderness, a child named Raven is sequestered by her mercurial mother. Ellis numbs herself with booze and pills, and permanently leaves Jonah and the twins to visit her Midwest home. But tragedy strikes when she leaves Viola for a moment in the parking lot and the baby is abducted.
Ellis has had a lifelong connection with nature, and finds solace there. After Ellis Bauhammer discovers her husband, Jonah, is having an affair, she takes a day trip with their four-year-old twins and newborn daughter, Viola, to a forest preserve near their home in Upstate New York. Vanderah follows Where the Forest Meets the Stars with another magical story about the power of love and second chances.
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