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This is a story about Jack and Mabel. A couple from Philadelphia who decide to move to Alaska, at the urging of Mabel, after the still birth of their only child. The year is 1920 and life is hard in the Alaska wilderness. Jack is kept busy on the homestead trying to make their living, Mabel is still mourning their lost child.
One snowy night, on a whim, they build a small figure from the snow in the form of a child. Jack carefully sculpts a face and Mabel dresses it in a scarf and gloves. The next morning it is nothing but a small pile of snow, scarf and gloves gone, but there are small foot prints leading from it into the woods.
The story is based on a Russian fairy tale and it is a wonderful story - part fairy tale, part mystery, part romance. I enjoyed the setting of the story in the Alaskan wilderness and the references to the wildlife that live in the woods. It is a mystical tale, and you never quite know if the child is real, or a spirit that Jack and Mabel have imagined.
One snowy night, on a whim, they build a small figure from the snow in the form of a child. Jack carefully sculpts a face and Mabel dresses it in a scarf and gloves. The next morning it is nothing but a small pile of snow, scarf and gloves gone, but there are small foot prints leading from it into the woods.
The story is based on a Russian fairy tale and it is a wonderful story - part fairy tale, part mystery, part romance. I enjoyed the setting of the story in the Alaskan wilderness and the references to the wildlife that live in the woods. It is a mystical tale, and you never quite know if the child is real, or a spirit that Jack and Mabel have imagined.
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