We watch Ellis spiral into a drug and alcohol induced hell after she severs all ties with her old life and crisscrosses America, camping out in the wilds, trying to outrun her soul-destroying grief and her crushing feelings of guilt and self-blame. I was totally riveted! Is this just another abduction story? Far from it! The storytelling is told from two separate points of view, alternating between the two main characters of this story: Ellis and Daughter of Raven.
She must leave them before she causes them any more damage. At the end of her mental and physical endurance, Ellis makes the only decision she believes is best for her boys. The media has judged Ellis harshly for her role in baby Viola’s disappearance. Ellis reaches a breaking point when she realizes that she is turning into her own neglectful, drug addicted mother. Her boys are neglected, her husband is angry with her and her hateful mother-in-law (what a viper!) undermines Ellis at every turn. Sedatives, then alcohol, then a heavy mix of both, help at first.
Her worst fears are realized when she speeds back to the river, only to find that the carrier, and her baby, are gone.Įllis’s world implodes. Ellis is horrified when, a mile into the return trip home, she notices that she had left the baby behind. Ellis’s twin boys act up, the incessant call of a raven and Ellis’s own wrought emotions cause her to forget that she had put her baby daughter’s car seat carrier onto the ground next to the van before dealing with one of her son’s tantrums.
The visit to the woods is destined to be a tragic disaster. She had just discovered that Jonah, her husband, was cheating on her with another woman. This forest had always soothed Ellis’s aching spirit and had been her only refuge during her often brutal childhood.īut for once, her idyllic surroundings could do nothing to ease Ellis’s turbulent thoughts and anguished feelings of betrayal. Her newborn daughter, Viola, lies tranquilly in her child carrier. The Light Through the Leaves by Glendy VanderahĮllis watches distractedly as her twin sons are catching tadpoles from the river that runs through Wild Wood – a forested area close to the trailer park she had grown up in.
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