In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow.
Award NamePulitzer PrizeAward categoryFictionDescriptionIn 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. The Snow Child, Hardcover - Eowyn Ivey 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.