Author: eowynivey

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the “powerful” and “remarkable” tale (The New York Times Book Review) of a harrowing expedition to 1880s Alaska. “An epic adventure story that seems heir to the tradition of Melville… An absorbing and high-stakes read” (Chicago Tribune).

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 … 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…