The Snow Child

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Call Number: Adult BOCD / Fiction / Fantasy / Ivey, Eowyn
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch

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Narrated by Debra Monk.
Compact discs.
Unabridged.
Read by Debra Monk.
The author's experience living in the Alaskan wilderness brings a palpable authenticity to this story. Alaska in the 1920s is a difficult place for Jack and Mabel. Drifting apart, the childless couple discover Faina, a young girl living alone in the wilderness. Soon, Jack and Mabel come to love Faina as their own. But when they learn a surprising truth about the girl, their lives change in profound ways.

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Too much tell, not enough show submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on August 19, 2017, 10:19pm So, here's my dilemma with this book: I've always heard that the best advice to authors is "show, don't tell." That is, if you want me to know that a character is sad, don't tell me that they're sad, rather, have them do the things that a sad person does.

So how does an author show everything in a story where the two main characters have a relationship that is basically so broken that they don't talk to each other? Where they hardly know each other? Where they live an isolated life in Alaska in the 1920's? What else is there but tell and tell and tell and tell?

The idea of _The Snow Child_ was an interesting one, and eventually the story itself wrapped me in enough that I could ignore that it was told through tell and tell and tell and tell. But I did not particularly enjoy the telling.

I listened to the audiobook, and enjoyed the narration.

achingly beautiful submitted by camelsamba on August 11, 2022, 11:23pm This is a retelling of a Russian fairy tale, sent in the Alaskan wilderness around 1920. A childless couple moves to Alaska to escape the pressures of family, and experience the harsh reality of surviving in the wilderness - and then something magical occurs. I listened to this twice in a row. Parts of it are achingly beautiful - a particular description of the aurora borealis, the first coat and the wedding dress. Parts are achingly sad. But running through is an undercurrent of resilience and touches of joy.