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“If Willa Cather and Gabriel Garcia Marquez had collaborated on a book, The Snow Child would be it. It is a remarkable accomplishment.”
— Robert Goolrick, New York Times bestselling author
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“A magical yet brutally realistic tale.”
— O, The Oprah Magazine
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“Captivating.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
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“Long winters come alive in Ivey’s novel about 1920s-era homesteaders in Alaska.”
— New York Times
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“Ivey sets up the two most powerful forces in any story: fear on the one hand, potential for the miraculous on the other.”
— Newsday
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“Ivey’s prose brings the chilly northern wilderness to life.”
— Bookseller
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“Enchanting from beginning to end…As fresh as the season’s first snow. Simply lovely.”
— Keith Donohue, author of The Motion of Puppets
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“A transporting tale…An amazing achievement.”
— Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab’s Wife
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Long winters come alive in Ivey's novel about 1920s-era homesteaders in Alaska.
— Tina Jordan, New York Times
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If Willa Cather and Gabriel Garcia Marquez had collaborated on a book, THE SNOW CHILD would be it. It is a remarkable accomplishment -- a combination of the most delicate, ethereal, fairytale magic and the harsh realities of homesteading in the Alaskan wilderness in 1918. Stunningly conceived, beautifully told, this story has the intricate fragility of a snowflake and the natural honesty of the dirt beneath your feet, the unnerving reality of a dream in the night. It fascinates, it touches the heart. It gallops along even as it takes time to pause at the wonder of life and the world in which we live. And it will stir you up and stay with you for a long, long time.
— Robert Goolrick, New York Times bestselling author of A Reliable Wife
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THE SNOW CHILD is enchanting from beginning to end. Ivey breathes life into an old tale and makes it as fresh as the season' s first snow. Simply lovely.
— Keith Donohue, New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Child
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A transporting tale . . . an amazing achievement.
— Sena Jeter Naslund, New York Times bestselling author of Ahab's Wife
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THE SNOW CHILD is a vivid story of isolation and hope on the Alaska frontier, a narrative of struggle with the elements and the elemental conflict between one's inner demons and dreams, and the miracle of human connection and community in a spectacular, dangerous world. You will not soon forget this story of learning to accept the gifts that fate and love can bring."—Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek
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Eowyn Ivey's exquisite debut transports the reader away to a world almost out of time, into a fairytale destined to both chill and delight. Her portrayal of an untamed Alaska is so detailed you can feel the snowflakes on your own eyelashes, even as her characters' desperate quest for, and ultimate redemption by, love will warm your heart.
— Melanie Benjamin, author of Alice I Have Been
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Magical, yes, but THE SNOW CHILD is also satisfyingly realistic in its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who settled there, including an older couple bound together by resilient love. Eowyn Ivey's poignant debut novel grabbed me from the very first pages and made me wish we had more genre-defying Alaska novels like this one. Inspired by a fairy tale, it nonetheless contains more depth and truth than so many books set in this land of extremes.
— Andromeda Romano-Lax, author of The Spanish Bow
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This book is real magic, shot through from cover to cover with the cold, wild beauty of the Alaskan frontier. Eowyn Ivey writes with all the captivating delicacy of the snowfalls she so beautifully describes.
— Ali Shaw, author of The Girl with Glass Feet