Into the Woods

I’ve never been to Maine, and all of the hikes I’ve ever taken can be tallied on one hand. Yet, somehow, in reading How to Survive in the Woods, Kat Rosenfield’s latest thriller, I find myself transported to a dense stretch of forest somewhere along the Appalachian Trail. Not the postcard version, the one with signposts and day-hikers and lunchboxes, but something far more oppressive: a landscape that feels closed in on itself, watchful, sentient. In Rosenfield’s hands, the wilderness does not just house the action, but it participates in it, conspiring with whatever darkness her characters carry within them.

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