But in the Alaska wilderness, life and death are inextricable, and what they eventually learn about Faina changes their lives forever.Įowyn was inspired to write the novel after she discovered the classic Russian fairy tale of the snow maiden. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who seems to have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and leaves blizzards in her wake. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. The next morning the snow child is gone, but they catch sight of an elusive, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. In a moment of levity during the season’s first snowfall, they build a child out of snow.
Jack and Mabel are drifting apart-he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm she crumbling from loneliness and despair. When she appears on their doorstep as a little girl, wild and secretive, their lives are changed forever.Īlaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for a couple who have never been able to conceive. In Eowyn Ivey’s magical debut novel The Snow Child, a couple creates a child out of snow.
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