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.
But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them..
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.
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel.
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
