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The Snow Child: A Novel

ISBN: 0316175676

Title: The Snow Child: A Novel

Author: Eowyn Ivey

KDL Description:

Jack and Mabel build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone—but they glimpse a girl running through the trees. As the couple struggles to understand this child, who calls herself Faina, they come to love her as their own daughter. But what they learn about Faina will transform all of them.

Amazon Description:

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.