Alaska,1920: a brutal place to homesteadand especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childlessthey are drifting apart–he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season’s first snowfallthey build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone–but they glimpse a youngblonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girlwho calls herself Fainaseems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her sideskims lightly across the snowand somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy talethey come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautifulviolent place things are rarely as they appearand what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.
The Snow Child
$6.00
Eowyn Ivey
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