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The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
5.0
I loved this book. Love love loved it. But I wouldn't recommend it to very many people because I'd worry they would be bored with it. There IS a story. It's basically a fairy tale, the kind that is normally told in 16 pages in a picture book. So imagine sixteen pages of a story stretched out to 400 pages. If that makes you want to gauge your eyes out, you will hate this book.
This book is about people, about place, about mysticism. It's about homesteading in the Alaskan wilderness in the early part of the 20th century. It's about despair. Deep, dark despair that is so well described that you can feel it. One of the book jacket quotes says this is like Willa Cather meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez and that's a really good description. Thematically I think the book is beyond the experience of most teenagers, so I wouldn't classify it as YA fiction, but there isn't much to object to content wise.
This book is about people, about place, about mysticism. It's about homesteading in the Alaskan wilderness in the early part of the 20th century. It's about despair. Deep, dark despair that is so well described that you can feel it. One of the book jacket quotes says this is like Willa Cather meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez and that's a really good description. Thematically I think the book is beyond the experience of most teenagers, so I wouldn't classify it as YA fiction, but there isn't much to object to content wise.