![]() 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. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. The next morning the snow child is gone - but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. ![]() ![]() ![]() Childless, they are drifting apart - he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm she crumbling from loneliness and despair. 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.Īlaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. ![]()
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