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The Snow Child

The Snow Child

Ivey, Eowyn

Hardcover

Series: Pulitzer Prize in Letters: Fiction Finalists

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0316175676
ISBN13: 9780316175678
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: Feb 1 2012
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Awards: Discover Great New Writers, Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, Indies Choice Book Awards, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, Pulitzer Prize
In this magical debut, 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. Childless, they 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 snowfall, they build a child out of snow. 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. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and 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 tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.

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