The Snow Child

Download or Read eBook The Snow Child PDF written by Eowyn Ivey and published by Reagan Arthur Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Snow Child
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Publisher : Reagan Arthur Books
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 9780316192958
ISBN-13 : 0316192953
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Snow Child by : Eowyn Ivey

Book excerpt: 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.


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