{"title":"Eowyn Ivey","description":"Eowyn LeMay Ivey was raised in Alaska and continues to live there with her husband and two daughters. She received her BA in journalism and minor in creative writing through the honors program at Western Washington University, studied creative nonfiction at the University of Alaska Anchorage graduate program, and worked for nearly 10 years as an award-winning reporter at the Frontiersman newspaper. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Snow Child.","products":[{"product_id":"the-snow-child-hardcover","title":"The Snow Child - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart -- he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone -- but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. 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. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101645967583,"sku":"9780316175678","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/dXc3SnZMU09EcVdYSzZ6NjFpMUQ0UT09.webp?v=1781071889"},{"product_id":"black-woods-blue-sky-paperback","title":"Black Woods, Blue Sky - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist \u003ci\u003eThe Snow Child\u003c\/i\u003e returns to the mythical landscapes of Alaska with an unforgettable dark fairy tale that asks the question: Can love save us from ourselves? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"No one writes like Eowyn Ivey.\"--Geraldine Brooks\u003cbr\u003e\"You will find yourself in places you have never been.\"--Louise Erdrich\u003cbr\u003e\"Ivey is an enthralling storyteller.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN NPR AND \u003ci\u003eSEATTLE TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBirdie's keeping it together; of course she is. So she's a little hungover, sometimes, and she has to bring her daughter, Emaleen, to her job waiting tables at an Alaskan roadside lodge, but she's getting by as a single mother in a tough town. Still, Birdie can remember happier times from her youth, when she was free in the wilds of nature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArthur Neilsen, a soft-spoken and scarred recluse who appears in town only at the change of seasons, brings Emaleen back to safety when she gets lost in the woods. Most people avoid him, but to Birdie, he represents everything she's ever longed for. She finds herself falling for Arthur and the land he knows so well. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAgainst the warnings of those who care about them, Birdie and Emaleen move to his isolated cabin in the mountains, on the far side of the Wolverine River. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's just the three of them in the vast black woods, far from roads, telephones, electricity, and outside contact, but Birdie believes she has come prepared. At first, it's idyllic and she can picture a happily ever after: Together they catch salmon, pick berries, and climb mountains so tall it's as if they could touch the bright blue sky. But soon Birdie discovers that Arthur is something much more mysterious and dangerous than she could have ever imagined, and that like the Alaska wilderness, a fairy tale can be as dark as it is beautiful. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Woods, Blue Sky\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel with life-and-death stakes, about the love between a mother and daughter, and the allure of a wild life--about what we gain and what it might cost us.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102213738719,"sku":"9780593231043","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/LIs9GiGCHO9780593231043.webp?v=1781079154"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/eowyn-ivey.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}