Kimi Cunningham Grant: These Silent Woods (2022, St. Martin's Press)
English language
Published Oct. 7, 2022 by St. Martin's Press.
A very well written story about the lengths a father will go through for his only daughter. The cabin in the woods sounds so peaceful.
I’m not big on parents and kids as the main focus of a story, so this isn’t for me!
This is an absorbing and well-written novel about a man on the run from the past and the daughter who he feared would be taken away from him. They live together in a cabin in the deep woods completely off the grid, with only an annual supply run provided by an old army buddy and an eccentric neighbor who is a slightly disturbing presence, able to appear without notice and given to cryptic statements. When the buddy doesn't show up and a woman appears, camping in the woods nearby, their carefully protected privacy begins to unravel. returnreturnThe relationship between father and daughter, two well-developed characters, and the lengths they go to to have a life in hiding deep in the woods, makes for a moving story that carries undercurrents of suspense - not only what happened to send them on the run, or whether they will be found, but whether …
This is an absorbing and well-written novel about a man on the run from the past and the daughter who he feared would be taken away from him. They live together in a cabin in the deep woods completely off the grid, with only an annual supply run provided by an old army buddy and an eccentric neighbor who is a slightly disturbing presence, able to appear without notice and given to cryptic statements. When the buddy doesn't show up and a woman appears, camping in the woods nearby, their carefully protected privacy begins to unravel. returnreturnThe relationship between father and daughter, two well-developed characters, and the lengths they go to to have a life in hiding deep in the woods, makes for a moving story that carries undercurrents of suspense - not only what happened to send them on the run, or whether they will be found, but whether "Cooper," the father, is doing right by his precocious daughter, isolating her from the world. Though I got a bit impatient with all the time it took to learn what sent them into the woods in the first place, it's altogether a deeply satisfying story that includes (eventually) a murder mystery and a twist of an ending.
