Into the Forest

Alma's 8 JEWISH BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS SEPTEMBER
NAMED ONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL'S BEST 10 BOOK OF SEPTEMBER

""Frankel is an extremely gifted writer." —Roxanne Coady, What Should You Read This Summer on Just the Right Book

"Page-turning... an even more improbable fairy tale about rescue, reunion and romantic love."
—The Forward

“[An] extraordinary story."
—Booklist

"A gripping story of one family’s courage and resourcefulness under life-threatening conditions."
—Kirkus (Starred review)

"Inspirational... Readers will be on the edge of their seats."
—Publisher's Weekly

"An excellent choice for serious book clubs that have previously chosen challenging titles like Tatiana de Rosnay’s Sarah’s Key and Irène Némirovsky’s Suite Française."
—Book Trib

“Frankel demonstrates the resilience of the human spirit, even when all appears to be lost.”
—Peter Bergen, author of The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden

"One of the most moving, thrilling, inspiring books anyone will read all year, fiction or non-fiction!"
—David Rothkopf, author of Traitor

"Gave me goosebumps, actual goosebumps... Thrilling and heartwarming, without masking horror and tragedy.”
—David Plotz, former CEO Atlas Obscura, author of Good Book

"Set in one of the world's last remaining primeval forests, this story of horror and heroism has the trappings of a grim fairy tale: Once upon a terrible time, after so much loss and devastation, one unlikely couple found their happily ever after."
—Ilana Kurshan, author of If All the Seas Were Ink, winner of the Sami Rohr Prize

“Hard to put down... A tragic, yet uplifting, tale of human fortitude and love that needs to be told and widely read.”
—Allan Levine, author of Fugitives of the Forest

“What makes Into the Forest truly memorable is Frankel’s uncanny empathy for her characters... She never allows us to look away, nor do we want to, no matter how terrible the events of this powerful narrative.”
—Glenn Frankel, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author