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This book starts out explaining the depression that Mabel is going through on the homestead she lives in with her husband Jack. They moved to Alaska and it is in the 1920s. They have only been there a short while and 10 years earlier suffered a stillborn birth. Mabel and Jack have not recovered since and silently keep their grief to their own selves and seem a bit distant with one another.
As a child, Mabel's father used to tell her a Russian story about a snow child that an older couple made in the snow that came to life. This story comes to her after she and Jack build their own snow child in an evening in which spunk has captured them.
The next morning they notice a little girl in the woods wearing the mittens, coat, and hat that was left on the snow child they built together. Mabel is convinced the story has just become reality but she doesn't know how.
In the process of everything, their neighbors have become a big part of their lives and they are growing as friends together. When they ask their neighbors about little girls in the area, and tell them about the one they have seen, they are skeptical and don't believe this girl exists.
The story is captivating and very beautiful. I actually felt as if I were there and understood the emotions as if seeing them. I love when stories are like that. This was beautifully done though often times very sad (like many Russian stories seem to be). I am left feeling a bit sad. I read this book in a few days and in one of the days I read 200 pages because it sucked me in big time.
My only issues with this book was that whenever the girl is around, the author does not put quotes on anyone's voices while the rest of the time you see quotes. That was odd. Also I have a very hard time when reading books that have blasphemous words about God, and the G-d combination words are said throughout the book maybe about 10 times, with pretty much barely any other swears (d words and hell used incorrectly are used a few times).
As a child, Mabel's father used to tell her a Russian story about a snow child that an older couple made in the snow that came to life. This story comes to her after she and Jack build their own snow child in an evening in which spunk has captured them.
The next morning they notice a little girl in the woods wearing the mittens, coat, and hat that was left on the snow child they built together. Mabel is convinced the story has just become reality but she doesn't know how.
In the process of everything, their neighbors have become a big part of their lives and they are growing as friends together. When they ask their neighbors about little girls in the area, and tell them about the one they have seen, they are skeptical and don't believe this girl exists.
The story is captivating and very beautiful. I actually felt as if I were there and understood the emotions as if seeing them. I love when stories are like that. This was beautifully done though often times very sad (like many Russian stories seem to be). I am left feeling a bit sad. I read this book in a few days and in one of the days I read 200 pages because it sucked me in big time.
My only issues with this book was that whenever the girl is around, the author does not put quotes on anyone's voices while the rest of the time you see quotes. That was odd. Also I have a very hard time when reading books that have blasphemous words about God, and the G-d combination words are said throughout the book maybe about 10 times, with pretty much barely any other swears (d words and hell used incorrectly are used a few times).
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