The Snow Child
Ranked #2 in Alaska, Ranked #9 in Winter — see more rankings.
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... more
Rankings by Category
The Snow Child is ranked in the following categories:
- #46 in 1920S
- #59 in Fairy Tale
- #92 in Folklore
- #22 in Fox
- #60 in Loneliness
- #10 in Magical Realism
- #89 in Mystical
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