The Snow Child
By
Eowyn Ivey
Read by
Thérèse Plummer
Release:
07/31/2018
Runtime:
10h 58m
Unabridged
Quantity:
“If Willa Cather and Gabriel Garcia Marquez had collaborated on a book, The Snow Child would be it. It is a remarkable accomplishment.”
Robert Goolrick, New York Times bestselling author
Finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
New York Times bestseller
Finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award for Best Regional Book
Winner of the Indies Choice Book Award
A New York Times Editor’s Choice of Unforgettable Fiction Exploring Matters of the Heart
A Los Angeles Times Pick of 7 Books to Keep You Cool This Summer
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.
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.
Release:
2018-07-31
Runtime:
10h 58m
Format:
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781549119118
Publisher:
Hachette Book Group
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