--- product_id: 113612301 title: "Where the Forest Meets the Stars" price: "Rp518534" currency: IDR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.id/products/113612301-where-the-forest-meets-the-stars store_origin: ID region: Indonesia --- # Heartfelt storytelling Nature-inspired narrative Engaging character development Where the Forest Meets the Stars **Price:** Rp518534 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🌌 Discover the magic where love meets the wild! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Where the Forest Meets the Stars - **How much does it cost?** Rp518534 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.id](https://www.desertcart.id/products/113612301-where-the-forest-meets-the-stars) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Emotional Depth:** Experience a story that challenges and uplifts. - • **Nature's Embrace:** Immerse yourself in a vivid, enchanting setting. - • **A Journey of Healing:** Explore the transformative power of love and loss. - • **Thought-Provoking Themes:** Delve into life, death, and the beauty in between. - • **Unforgettable Characters:** Meet a cast that will resonate with your soul. ## Overview Where the Forest Meets the Stars is a poignant novel that intertwines themes of grief, love, and the healing power of nature. It follows the journey of a woman who, while grappling with her own loss, encounters a mysterious child and an unexpected connection that changes her life forever. ## Description An desertcart Charts, Wall Street Journal , and Washington Post bestseller, and a Goodreads Choice Award finalist. In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again. After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises. The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles. With concerns about the child’s home situation, Jo reluctantly agrees to let her stay―just until she learns more about Ursa’s past. Jo enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery of the charming child. But the more time they spend together, the more questions they have. How does a young girl not only read but understand Shakespeare? Why do good things keep happening in her presence? And why aren’t Jo and Gabe checking the missing children’s website anymore? Though the three have formed an incredible bond, they know difficult choices must be made. As the summer nears an end and Ursa gets closer to her fifth miracle, her dangerous past closes in. When it finally catches up to them, all of their painful secrets will be forced into the open, and their fates will be left to the stars. Review: Mind Blown 🤯 - What an incredible read!! I can’t get over this book! So much happening and so intriguing I didn’t want to put it down! Ursa, Jo, & Gabe are incredible This story had more twists than I know how to handle but I loved it 😍 Be warned, there is an animal death Ursa believes she’s from another planet, but reality may not be exactly as it appears Jo is renting a cabin for the summer to work on a college project. She is also a breast cancer survivor who recently lost her mother to it. Gabe is a loner who lives with his mother as her caretaker and desperately wants to forget the rest of the world even exists. His life with anxiety has caused him to keep to himself. This trio comes together in the most unusual way and there is just so much happening it’s hard to tell what is reality, and what isn’t. Incredible journey filled with love, loss, horror, acceptance, & a little bit of magic Review: Gripping - It has been a long time since a book gripped me so tightly that I couldn't put it down during the climax of the story - this one did. This is a story of of three broken people (four if you count the dog) that fate brings together to make whole again. It is very well written in that the reader becomes emotionally invested in the story. The characters are well developed and believable. The plot is also well put together and believable. This is actually a departure from my usual genres of books and stories - and I'm very happy I ventured outside of my boundaries this time. One of the things I liked most about the writing style is how Glendy Vanderah refers to the little girl in the story as the alien (at least until she is given a name later in the book). This despite the fact that he reader knows from the very beginning that this is a very troubled little girl and the book is not a science fiction story. This simple technique helps pull the reader into the story that is being woven together. As for the little girl herself (the alien) I have to think for an author developing and characterizing a child, especially a troubled child, has to be a very difficult task. Nevertheless, Ms. Vanderah gives us a very believable character in the alien. A character that you simply want to reach through the pages and hug because you know something bad has happened to her. On that point Ms. Vanderah does an excellent job at developing her plot without revealing very much of it at all. Ms. Vanderah stays on the fringes of the plot secret only giving the reader enough information to know that some tragedy has occurred to this little girl but not enough to help the reader come up with a theory of what that tragedy may have been. And speaking of tragedies, the other two main characters Jo and Gabe have both had their own individual tragedies in Jo's case recently and in Gabe's case for his entire life. Their stories are such that one could be forgiven if they never believed these two would hold much of a conversation with each other. But the alien becomes a catalyst that brings these two broken lives together - and in the end those two broken lives become instrumental in saving a third broken live - the alien. At it's core this is a love story. But not necessarily a sappy romantic love story - I would have lost interest in that quickly. But a love story that demonstrates just how powerful and magical love can be and how love truly can conquer all. This is most evident at the very end of the book and again Ms. Vanderah kept the ultimate ending well hidden. I have so much more I could say about this book. But I may end up revealing too much. Suffice to say that this is one of the best books I've read in a long time and I enjoyed my time with Jo, Gabe, the alien, and Ms. Vanderah. Ok, so why four stars. Ms. Vanderah, while writing a beautifully woven tale chose to interject colorful adult euphemisms into her dialog. In this particular story this added nothing to the story and exemplified my belief that the use of this language is a writer's "lazy tool". That is, I belief the author thinks to themselves, "I want to make a strong point here" and rather than come up with a more literary manner of doing this they fall back to guttural language. This particular story did not need this guttural language and I'd have preferred it not be there. Ms. Vanderah was demonstrating what a masterful author she is so I don't think it would have been overly difficult for her to eliminate this language and find another way to make her strong points. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #8,666 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #130 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction #163 in Literary Fiction (Books) #209 in Contemporary Women Fiction | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 121,860 Reviews | ## Images ![Where the Forest Meets the Stars - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/918hXn4Uy1L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mind Blown 🤯 *by L***9 on April 29, 2025* What an incredible read!! I can’t get over this book! So much happening and so intriguing I didn’t want to put it down! Ursa, Jo, & Gabe are incredible This story had more twists than I know how to handle but I loved it 😍 Be warned, there is an animal death Ursa believes she’s from another planet, but reality may not be exactly as it appears Jo is renting a cabin for the summer to work on a college project. She is also a breast cancer survivor who recently lost her mother to it. Gabe is a loner who lives with his mother as her caretaker and desperately wants to forget the rest of the world even exists. His life with anxiety has caused him to keep to himself. This trio comes together in the most unusual way and there is just so much happening it’s hard to tell what is reality, and what isn’t. Incredible journey filled with love, loss, horror, acceptance, & a little bit of magic ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Gripping *by A***D on March 5, 2019* It has been a long time since a book gripped me so tightly that I couldn't put it down during the climax of the story - this one did. This is a story of of three broken people (four if you count the dog) that fate brings together to make whole again. It is very well written in that the reader becomes emotionally invested in the story. The characters are well developed and believable. The plot is also well put together and believable. This is actually a departure from my usual genres of books and stories - and I'm very happy I ventured outside of my boundaries this time. One of the things I liked most about the writing style is how Glendy Vanderah refers to the little girl in the story as the alien (at least until she is given a name later in the book). This despite the fact that he reader knows from the very beginning that this is a very troubled little girl and the book is not a science fiction story. This simple technique helps pull the reader into the story that is being woven together. As for the little girl herself (the alien) I have to think for an author developing and characterizing a child, especially a troubled child, has to be a very difficult task. Nevertheless, Ms. Vanderah gives us a very believable character in the alien. A character that you simply want to reach through the pages and hug because you know something bad has happened to her. On that point Ms. Vanderah does an excellent job at developing her plot without revealing very much of it at all. Ms. Vanderah stays on the fringes of the plot secret only giving the reader enough information to know that some tragedy has occurred to this little girl but not enough to help the reader come up with a theory of what that tragedy may have been. And speaking of tragedies, the other two main characters Jo and Gabe have both had their own individual tragedies in Jo's case recently and in Gabe's case for his entire life. Their stories are such that one could be forgiven if they never believed these two would hold much of a conversation with each other. But the alien becomes a catalyst that brings these two broken lives together - and in the end those two broken lives become instrumental in saving a third broken live - the alien. At it's core this is a love story. But not necessarily a sappy romantic love story - I would have lost interest in that quickly. But a love story that demonstrates just how powerful and magical love can be and how love truly can conquer all. This is most evident at the very end of the book and again Ms. Vanderah kept the ultimate ending well hidden. I have so much more I could say about this book. But I may end up revealing too much. Suffice to say that this is one of the best books I've read in a long time and I enjoyed my time with Jo, Gabe, the alien, and Ms. Vanderah. Ok, so why four stars. Ms. Vanderah, while writing a beautifully woven tale chose to interject colorful adult euphemisms into her dialog. In this particular story this added nothing to the story and exemplified my belief that the use of this language is a writer's "lazy tool". That is, I belief the author thinks to themselves, "I want to make a strong point here" and rather than come up with a more literary manner of doing this they fall back to guttural language. This particular story did not need this guttural language and I'd have preferred it not be there. Ms. Vanderah was demonstrating what a masterful author she is so I don't think it would have been overly difficult for her to eliminate this language and find another way to make her strong points. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautifully written story *by V***S on April 1, 2025* A Favorite Quote: “Thunder growled. Rain clawed at the window. Joe held Ursa in her safe nest, and all the while fate sat watching.” Self-written Blurb: Two strangers who have both handled grief and trauma in completely different ways, must navigate through their colliding worlds to help a little girl through her own trauma. Jo is just trying to get her bird research done. Gabe is just stuck in a daily repetitive routine. Ursa is an alien living in an 8 year old’s body and was sent to Earth to witness 5 miracles. Faced with the impossible situation of trying to do the right thing by Ursa, Jo and Gabe wade their way through tough decision after tough decision. Who is Ursa, if not a lost and trauma ridden child? And what 5 miracles could send these three on an, at best, nontraditional and at worst, unethical journey? Perhaps love is the best miracle of all. What I enjoyed: Glendy Vanderah is a masterful storyteller. This book has the perfect blend of humor, heartache, mystery and life lessons. Ursa immediately captured my heart. The way I could relate to both Jo and Gabe was enigmatical. The author does a splendid job at making you feel as if you are right there with Jo, Gabe and Ursa. Told completely in the third person, this story has everything you want in literary fiction. It highlights how everyone handles grief and trauma differently but most importantly that sometimes friendship and a found family can give you the greatest power of healing. Such a heart-warming story that will likely stay with me through the years. Any struggles?: I didn’t have any struggles with this book. Will I recommend and to who: To everyone. To absolutely everyone. If you have triggers with thoughts surrounding child abuse though, I would recommend to proceed with caution. ## Frequently Bought Together - Where the Forest Meets the Stars - The Lost Bookshop: The most charming and uplifting novel for 2025 and the perfect gift for book lovers! - The Frozen River: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.id/products/113612301-where-the-forest-meets-the-stars](https://www.desertcart.id/products/113612301-where-the-forest-meets-the-stars) --- *Product available on Desertcart Indonesia* *Store origin: ID* *Last updated: 2026-05-10*