The Snow Child A Novel
The Snow Child A Novel by Eowyn Ivey, published by Little, Brown on November 6, 2012, is a captivating tale set in Alaska during the harsh winter of 1920. This first edition, comprising 416 pages, explores the lives of Jack and Mabel, a couple grappling with the challenges of homesteading and the emotional distance that has grown between them due to their childlessness. Their lives take a magical turn when they create a snow child during the season’s first snowfall, only to find a mysterious young girl named Faina appearing in the woods the next day.
Readers will find a blend of magical realism and family life as Jack and Mabel navigate their feelings for Faina, who embodies the spirit of the wilderness. The narrative delves into themes of love, loss, and the complexities of human connection against the backdrop of a brutal yet beautiful landscape. As the couple comes to understand Faina’s origins and the realities of their situation, the story unfolds with a sense of wonder and transformation, inviting readers to reflect on the nature of family and belonging.
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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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