The Snow Child

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"If Willa Gather and Gabriel Garcia Márquez had collaborated on a book. The Snow Child would be it. It is a remarkable accomplishment—a combination of the most delicate, ethereal, fairytale magic and the harsh realities of homesteading in the Alaskan wilderness. Stunningly conceived, beautifully told, this story has the intricate fragility of a snowflake and the natural honesty of the dirt beneath your feet, the unnerving reality of a dream in the night. It fascinates, it touches the heart. It gallops along even as it takes time to pause at the wonder of life and the world in which we live. And it will stir you up and stay with you for a long, long time."
—Robert Goolrick, author of A Reliable Wife
"A transporting tale an amazing achievement."
—Sena Jeter Naslund, author of y!/jab 5 Wife
"Eowyn Ivey's exquisite debut transports the reader away to a world almost out of time, into a fairy tale destined to both chill and delight."
—Melanie... Tovább

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praise for
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S NOW C H I LIl)
"If Willa Gather and Gabriel Garcia Márquez had collaborated on a book. The Snow Child would be it. It is a remarkable accomplishment—a combination of the most delicate, ethereal, fairytale magic and the harsh realities of homesteading in the Alaskan wilderness. Stunningly conceived, beautifully told, this story has the intricate fragility of a snowflake and the natural honesty of the dirt beneath your feet, the unnerving reality of a dream in the night. It fascinates, it touches the heart. It gallops along even as it takes time to pause at the wonder of life and the world in which we live. And it will stir you up and stay with you for a long, long time."
—Robert Goolrick, author of A Reliable Wife
"A transporting tale an amazing achievement."
—Sena Jeter Naslund, author of y!/jab 5 Wife
"Eowyn Ivey's exquisite debut transports the reader away to a world almost out of time, into a fairy tale destined to both chill and delight."
—Melanie Benjamin, author of Alice I Have Been
"The Snow Child is enchanting from beginning to end----Simply lovely."
—Keith Donohue, author of The Stolen Child
"This book is real magic Eowyn Ivey writes with all the captivating delicacy of the snowfalls she so beautifully describes."
—Ali Shaw, author of The Girl with Glass Feet
"Magical, yes, but The Snow Child is also satisfyingly realistic in its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who settled there, including an older couple bound together by resilient love. Eowyn Ivey's poignant debut novel grabbed me from the very first pages."
—Andromeda Romano-Lax, author of The Spanish Bow
"The Snow Child gives us, in imagery as crisp and glistening as a ripe winter apple, a newfangled fable for the ages."
—M. Allen Cunningham, author of The Green Age of Asher Witherow
"A treasure of northern-style storytelling ,. Anyone who has known the duration of a long winter and the comfort of a good book by a warm stove will love The Snow Child."
—John Straley, author of The Woman Who Married a Bear
ISBN 978-0-316-17567-8
978031617567852499
"You will not soon forget this story of learning to accept the gifts that fate and love can bring."
—Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek
Homesteaders Jack and Mabel have carved out a quiet life of hard work and routine for themselves in the wilderness that is 1920s Alaska, both still deeply longing for the child it's now impossible for them to have. Yet their love for each other is strong, and in a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they play together, building a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone—but a trail of tiny footsteps remains. For weeks following, they both catch ghmpses of a blond little girl alone in the woods but neither dares mention it to the other, afraid that long-buried hopes have overruled common sense.
Then the little girl, who calls herself Faina, shows up on their doorstep. Small and fair, she seems truly magical: she hunts with a red fox at her side, she leaves blizzards in her wake, and somehow she manages to survive alone in the harsh Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand Faina, they come to love her as their own. But in this beautiful, violent place, things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform them all.
Eowyn Ivey's enchanting, mesmerizing debut is the story of a couple whose longing for a child is so intense that they may have imagined her into existence. As dazzling as the snowy Alaskan landscape in which it is set, The Snow Child shines with imaginative power, immersing the reader in a place both faraway and familiar, a tale both universal and brilliantly unique. Vissza