The Snow Child

Eowyn Ivey 2012

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
grief loss love literary fiction

Our Take

An Alaskan wilderness, a childless couple, and a girl made of snow who cannot stay. Ivey writes longing with the patience of someone who understands that what we love most is always already leaving. Grief and magic and the particular cruelty of hope fulfilled too briefly.

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