The world more full of weeping
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Eleven-year-old Brian Page spends every waking moment in the forest behindthe house where he lives with his father. But forests are always deeper thananyone can know. Secrets are hidden in the eternal twilight of the trees. Thosesecrets emerge into light when Brian disappears in the forest, as his father didthree decades before. His father, however, came home with no memory of theevents in the depths of the forest. What has drawn Brian away? Will he emerge, shuddering and broken, as his father did, or will the forests close around him, as they have done so often befor
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The World More Full of Weeping is a 77 page novella told from two points of view. The first is the view of Jeff Page, as he discovers his son hasn't returned from playing in the woods. The second is that of the son, Brian, as he meets a girl in the woods who shows him marvelous things.
It's a sweet, compelling story of love and loss. And a reminder that doing what you believe is best for someone doesn't usually take into account their own preferences on the matter.