The Snow Child
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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
… More »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.--From Amazon.
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Add a CommentWonderfully visual. I could see this whole story.
A simple touching story, beautifully told. I can't remember the last time I cared this much about the characters of a book. This will always be one of my favourites
I am in love with this book - it's beautiful, well-written, enthralling and has that rare ability to move you right into the cold, pure world of snow.
A lovely book. It re-tells an old Russian fairy tale, but in a way that brings the characters fully to life. The setting - Alaska in the early part of the 20th century - brings a whole new dimension to the tale. This book makes you want to go there to experience that wonderful wilderness. The descriptions of trapping and hunting are vividly described, and are not for the squeamish - but they add realism to the book.
Exquisite ! Haunting. Moving...
This was one of those rare books I have read recently that I was sorry to reach the end. It is an enthralling tale and an unusual blend of fairy-tale and harsh realism. I look forward to her next novel.
I really enjoyed this story. The folklore element combined with the description of the Alaskan wilderness... A great winter read :)
An older Alaskan couple wishes for a child so much that when they build a snowman in the shape of a child, she comes to life.
I really enjoyed this book because of Ivey's mixture of fiction that's not there, and real life problems that jack and Mabel put themselves through by moving to Alaska
Intriguing debut novel set in the wilderness of Alaska in the 1920s. Jack and Mabel are an older couple who are saddened by their inability to have a child of their own. They move away from friends and family and move north to Alaska to forget their pain and start over with new friends and experiences. One evening they playfully make a snowchild after a fresh snowfall. The next morning the snowchild is gone but small footprints are all around. What happens next becomes a cross between magic and hopeful dreaming. Is the child real or is it a figment of their imagination from years of longing? Based on an old Russian fairytale, the author uses beautiful expressive language which brings vivid imagery of the wilds of Alaska; full of hardship and pain but also stunningly beautiful and serene. Chatelaine magazine has chosen this novel for their book club of the month.