The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
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.
Eowyn LeMay Ivey was born and reared in Alaska, where she still lives with her husband and two daughters. She earned a BA in journalism with a minor in creative writing from Western Washington University's honors program, went on to study creative nonfiction at the University of Alaska Anchorage's graduate program, and spent nearly a decade as an award-winning reporter for the Frontiersman newspaper. She is the author of The Snow Child, a New York Times bestseller.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780316175661 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316175668 |
| Title | The Snow Child |
| Author | Eowyn Ivey |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown & Company |
| Year published | 2012-11-06 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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