FEBRUARY 6th to FEBRUARY 20th, 2012
THE SNOW CHILD
by EOWYN IVEY
SYNOPSIS:
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.
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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Could I live like that. I doubt it, if I don’t have a bathroom I am useless.
I’m not good with the cold. I can’t even sleep if my nose is cold. So no, I wouldn’t be able to live in the environment describes because I am a wimp.:)
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i would be able to live n the wood or on the snow are as long as i have wood t cut and gun to shoot with and traps for good i would keep my self busy
well, I watch a lot of those survival and Alaska shows on the History Channel and NGeo and such, so maybe..lol
and I love the cold!
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I’m not sure whether or not I could survive, but at least I’d have a fighting chance, thanks to some skills I’ve picked up.
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I have lived out in the country during some really bad winters, so I probably wouldn’t have a problem.
I couldn’t handle living in the wilderness like that! I like to stay warm.
Not me, I am a southern gitl used to warm weather.
I highly doubt it…
For sure not.
No, I am way spoiled!!!
No. I’ve little tolerance for frigid temps.
No, I could not but I have a lot of admiration and respect for those that did have to live this way.
No, I wouldn’t be able to live in the wilderness, especially in Alaska.
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I would not be able to live in the wildnerness at all
Alaska would be an extremely difficult place to survive, especially in the winter.
I could never survive in the wilderness
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nope, i could never gut/skin a squirrel rabbit whatever
i could never live in the wilderness