Title:
The Snow Child
Author:
Eowyn Ivey
Genre:
Fiction
Age Group:
Adult
Contents:
Bag with 10 copies of book + discussion questions and author information.
Location:
May Memorial Library
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.