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Title	:	The Snow Child
Author	:	Eowyn Ivey
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 404 pages
Published	:	February 1st 2012 by Reagan Arthur Books
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fantasy. Magical Realism. Fairy Tales. Adult

The Snow Child Kindle Edition | Pages: 404 pages

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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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Original Title:	The Snow Child ASIN B004RD856M
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Mabel, Jack, Snegurochka
Setting:	Alaska(United States)
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2013), Indies Choice Book Award for Adult Debut (2013), Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2014), The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee (2012), Specsavers National Book Award for International Author of the Year (2012) Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2012)

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"It was beautiful, Mabel knew, but it was a beauty that ripped you open and scouted you clean so that you were left helpless and exposed, if you lived at all."What a beautiful, harsh and wintry tale! An odd pick for me to read in June/July but I felt like I was right there in deepest Alaska, with the powerful landscapes and dark winters. Mabel and Jack have never been able to have children, since they had a still born baby. Escaping their grief and the stares of those around them, they move to

to take every bit of pleasure from that moment, knowing it might not last. The Snow Child was a book club selection. I am not sure I would have picked it up on my own.Without getting into plot points, I will just say that this novel, which begins in 1920 Alaska, is a fine example of magical realism. The author, Eowyn Ivey, does such a nice job jumping between these two elements that when she seamlessly combines them from time to time the reader finds themselves captured, in its grip, and not at

So this story was beautiful with so many cute and heartbreaking moments. One of the best things in the book is the character development and the developing relationships throughout the story. From the start of the book, I nearly started crying because there was just scenes that were so heart wrenching especially at the end which completely broke my heart. All the characters are perfect in this novel, they all have their faults but just as many strengths and the unexpected romance towards the end

Once upon a time there lived a childless old couple... This is not an uncommon beginning to folk tales, a simple introductory line which can (and in Eowyn Ivey's The Snow Child does) condense into a few simple words the years of pain, sadness, and intense longing for something that nature refused to give despite desperate desire. "Where else in life, Mabel wondered, could a woman love so openly and with such abandon?" This is where I saw the strengths of The Snow Child - not in the imagery of

With her sensational debut novel, Eowyn Ivey offers readers a healthy dose of rural Alaskan life balanced with a story that pulls on the heartstrings. Mabel and Jack have come to settle on the Alaskan home-front in the 1920s, having left behind the busy Pennsylvania lifestyle to which they had become accustomed. Childless and in their 50s, Jack and Mabel are forced to forge their own way and subsist on whatever they can accumulate. While Jack toils away on their land, Mabels idle time is spent



A magical & classic fairytale story for adults!  (bringing back memories of our childhood)Sister Read Review by Norma & BrendaTHE SNOW CHILD by EOWYN IVEY is a wonderful, heartwarming, sad, and beautifully told bewitching tale based on a Russian fairytale titled "Snegurochka", The Snow Maiden a girl who is believed to be half-human and half made of snow.  This enchanting story had us both asking ourselves was there something magical happening here or not?  Oh, but for us, there