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The Snow Child is the debut novel by Eowyn Ivey. It was first published on February 1, 2012, by Little, Brown and Company. The novel was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was generally well received by critics.
The Snow Child is set in the 1920s and follows Jack and Mabel, a childless older couple struggling as homesteaders in the Alaskan wilderness. The sudden emergence of a young girl from the woods changes their lives.




Synopsis


Jack and Mabel long to have a child of their own, but after burying their newborn baby, they are forced to give up that dream. Desperate for a change of scene, the middle-aged couple moves from their farm in Pennsylvania to Alpine, Alaska where they want to set up a homestead, clear out the trees, and build the land for farming.
Unfortunately, this goal isn't as easy as it seems. Feeling down on their luck due to their lack of money, the couple has to find joy wherever they can. They end up making friends with their neighbors George and Esther Benson and getting to know the couple's 13-year-old son Garrett. Jack and Mabel also embrace their youth by playing in the snow, leading them to create a female child out of the snow.
The next day, the red mittens and scarf are missing and the snow is in a pile. To make matters even more strange, Jack and Mabel see a child's footprints in the snow and even catch rare glimpses of the child herself in the trees. Mabel believes it's a Russian fairy tale from her childhood come true, but Jack is doubtful and wants to hunt down the child in the woods.
Eventually, Jack and Mabel discover that the snow child is actually a real girl living off the land. Her name is Faina after the light that streams through the mountains. Her father died, leaving her alone to survive. However, the snow is Faina's home and she doesn't know anything else.
Mabel desperately wants Faina to come live in their cabin, but Faina wants to stay a child of the snow. This conflict is what guides the rest of the narrative.




Musical adaption


Ivey's novel was adapted into a musical play called Snow Child, which premiered at Arena Stage's Kreeger Theater in Washington, D.C., on April 13, 2018. The musical featured a book by John Strand, music by Bob Banghart and Georgia Stitt, and lyrics by Stitt. The premiere production, which was co-produced by Juneau, Alaska's Perseverance Theatre, was directed by Arena Stage artistic director Molly Smith and starred Matt Bogart and Christiane Noll as Jack and Mabel, respectively. Additional cast included Alex Alferov as Garrett, Dan Manning as George, Fina Strazza as Faina, and Natalie Toro as Esther.




References

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The Snow-child is a widespread European folktale, found in many medieval tellings.
It is Aarne–Thompson type 1362.




Synopsis


A merchant returns home after an absence of two years to find his wife with a newborn son. She explains one snowy day she swallowed a snowflake while thinking about her husband which caused her to conceive. Pretending to believe, he raises the boy with her until he takes the boy on a trip and sells him into slavery. On his return, he explains to his wife that the boy melted in the heat.




Variants


The tale first appears in the 11th-century Cambridge Songs. It also appears in Medieval fabliaux, and was used in school exercises of rhetoric. A Medieval play about the Virgin Mary has characters disbelieving her story of her pregnancy citing the tale.
It contrasts to Aarne-Thompson type 703*, Snow Maiden, where a child really has a magical snow-related origin.




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