©2012 Eowyn Ivey
Debut novelist Eowyn ivey’s experience living in the Alaskan wilderness brings a palpable authenticity to The Snow Child. Alaska in the 1920s is a difficult place for Jack and Mabel. Drifting apart, the childless couple discover Faina, a young girl living alone in the wilderness. Soon, Jack and Mabel come to love Faina as their own. But when they learn a surprising truth about the girl, their lives change in profound ways.
Summary
The Snow Child
Narrarated by: Debra Monk
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03.27.12
Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
2012 | Label: Recorded Books
A magical yet realistic fairy tale of the Alaskan Wilderness
Alaskan writer Eowyn Ivey spins a magical yet realistic fairy tale with her debut novel. The Snow Child is the story of Mabel and Jack, a childless married couple who have moved to the Alaskan wilderness in the 1920s in order to escape a difficult past. However, perhaps not surprisingly, the back country provides its own challenges. It’s in the details of the wild that Ivey, with some notes of Annie Proulx, captures a different world, from the rocks and snow to the realities of hunting moose and plucking chickens. The harshness of country living, however, is tempered when the couple is visited by a mysterious girl who may or may not be of this world, and who could either bring the couple closer together or drive them apart for good. Ivey also manages to work in themes of gender roles and the definition of a traditional family into her tale, which will take readers away to another time and place, although the character voices of narrator Debra Monk may prove a bit distracting.