Cate fully understands the 12-year-old’s slightly supernatural sense. Led by a dog, Ellie discovers elderly Cate-called “hag” and shunned as a witch-badly injured, living alone in a cabin on the mountaintop.
After she becomes determined to use the resources of the woods, however novel and imaginative the application, to save her father, conflict with her mother and Esther increases sharply.
She’s fully mindful of her place in the natural world and her impact on the plants and animals she shares it with. Never feeling threatened by the wilderness the way her mother and older sister, Esther, do, Ellie takes over many of her beloved father’s chores, finding comfort and confidence in the forest. Not long after getting them established in their new life, Ellie’s father is struck on the head by a falling tree and lapses into a monthslong coma, his recovery unlikely. After losing almost everything in the Great Depression, Ellie’s family moves to the Maine woods on Echo Mountain to start a farm-then tragedy strikes.
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