where the forest meets the stars by glendy vanderah

But as they spend more time together, they start to wonder more. Jo asks her reclusive neighbour Gabriel Nash for assistance in unravelling the mystery behind the endearing toddler. Jo hesitantly decides to let Ursa stay-just until she learns more about Ursa’s past-out of worry for the child’s home circumstances. The young woman, who goes by the name Ursa, says she was sent by the stars to see five miracles. Her isolated routine is interrupted when a mystery child who arrives at her hut barefoot and covered in bruises causes her to stop working from dusk till dawn. Joanna Teale returns to her graduate studies on nesting birds in rural Illinois after losing her mother and overcoming breast cancer, determined to show that her recent adversity has not broken her. A novel that is sure to spark book club debate. In conclusion, Glendy Vanderah’s debut novel Where the Forest Meets the Stars offers a unique perspective on difficult and perhaps upsetting subject matter. Exposure encourages conversation, and only through conversation can understanding expand. However, I do like Vanderah’s support of bravery and tenacity as well as her ambition in investigating challenging issues and posing crucial questions like these. Your perspective on depression, like that of the majority of those who have never dealt with it, is mistakenly optimistic. I believed that certain characters’ assumption jumps revealed a lack of complexity and refinement in characterization. I was hesitant about the love relationship in this book because of a concern I had about how trauma healing and depression treatment are handled.

Words usually fall short when you want to say the correct thing the most.

Despite the plot’s charming romance aspects, I found the tragic storyline centred on Ursa’s plight to be much more compelling and rewarding.

Where the Forest Meets the Stars is undoubtedly a slow-burning book, but I eventually became engrossed in it.

Where the forest meets the stars by glendy vanderah