Adult Book Discussion | iStock by EmirMemedovski
Adult Book Discussion | iStock by EmirMemedovski
Join us in the Community Room for our monthly Adult Book Discussion!
This month we will be discussing The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
This program is free and open to the public. No registration required! The book is available in regular print, large print and on audio CD at the Circulation Desk. You can also find an ebook version free on the Libby App.
The Snow Child
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 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.
Date:
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Time:
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Contact:
Amy Schumann 860-283-4339 aschumann@biblio.org
Location:
Community Room
Original source can be found here.
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