The Snow Child Ivey Eowyn Paperback
The Snow Child Ivey Eowyn Paperback In this magical debut -- a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize -- a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their…
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The Snow Child Ivey Eowyn Paperback
In this magical debut -- a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize -- a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep.Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair.
She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have