At Town & Country she tagged twenty-five of the best classic winter books to read by the fire, including:
The Snow Child by Eowyn IveyRead about the other entries on the list.
In 1920 Alaska, recent arrivals Jack and Mabel arrive to create a homestead. During the first snowfall of the season, they make a child out of snow—the next morning, their creation is gone, but a blonde-haired girl named Faina appears in the woods. Author Eowyn Ivey was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for this book.
The Snow Child is among Idra Novey's top ten retold fairytales, Ashleigh Bell Pedersen's eight magical novels by women writers and M. A. Kuzniar's eight retellings with a bite of darkness.
--Marshal Zeringue
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