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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 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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@witchyrichy You might like Shandi Mitchell's Under this Unbroken Sky, or perhaps Michael Crummey's Sweetland. For a little magical realism thrown in, try The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey.
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There are times when you regret not reading a book sooner. But I'm glad I didn't read Eowyn Ivey's "The Snow Child" years earlier because I wouldn't know one key thing: if this book had a theme song, it would be Taylor Swift's "Bigger Than The Whole Sky". https://t.co/SGoZn1a8c5
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"The Snow Child" by Eowyn Ivey is a retelling of Russian fairytale set in Alaska in 1920. Its mix of realism and fantasy are perfect for this time of year. #eowynivey #thesnowchild #bookrecommendations #christmasreading #tbrlist https://t.co/LHx0iSjtNi