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The quote surrounding this book is "If Willa Cather and Gabriel Garcia Marquez had collaborated on a book, The Snow Child would be it. Eowyn Ivey is a bookseller at an independent store in Alaska, and her debut novel has rocked the indie bookselling world. Set in the 1920s in rural Alaska, it follows a couple who wish for a child, but never get one. One day, they build a little girl out of snow. The next morning, their snow girl has vanished but a new character, Faina appears on the scene. From here, the book becomes a fable or a fairy tale, guaranteed to grab readers who enjoyed Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude or Ali Shaw's The Girl with Glass Feet.