About this Event
Pulitzer Prize finalist for fiction • Indies Choice award for debut fiction • UK National Book Award winner International Author of the Year • PNBA Book Award winner
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. (Author's website)
This will be a hybrid event. For patrons who would like to attend in person, we'll be hosting this book club in the Bendheim Room. For patrons who would like to attend online, a Zoom meeting ID and password will be emailed to all participants 15 minutes prior to the start of the event.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
East Hampton Library, 159 Main Street, East Hampton, United States
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