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V.I.B. (very impressive book)
Every now and then we encounter a new book that we’re so excited about we want to shout it from the rooftops, so we've created a special tag to distinguish it from the rest: TC V.I.B. (very impressive book)! That means it’s a true stand-out in a season of many excellent and compelling new books.
Our new selection is
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Eowyn Ivey, named for a character in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, was raised in Alaska and continues to live there with her husband and two daughters. She holds a degree in journalism with a minor in creative writing from Western Washington University honors program, 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. Eowyn now works for an indie bookshop, Fireside Books, where she says she likes to play "matchmaker between readers and books." The Snow Child is informed by Eowyn's life in Alaska. Her husband is a fishery biologist with the state of Alaska. They are living a rural, largely subsistence lifestyle with their children, harvesting salmon and wild berries; hauling water from natural sources; cutting wood for the primary source of home heating—a wood stove; keeping a vegetable garden, turkeys and chickens; and hunting caribou, moose, and bear for meat.
TC staffer Jackie says, "This is a tale of loneliness and magic, of a mystical reality that veils a more bleak one and answers a dream only halfway. What can you do when the only way to have your fondest wish is to lose it time and time again? This tale of an older couple in 1920s Alaska is filled with profound emotion and delicate storytelling. It weaves its own magic around the reader, drawing you in until you can feel and smell the glittering snow, hear the logs in the stove crackling, and perhaps see a glimpse of a blue coat, a flash of white-blonde hair, or the tail of a fox disappearing behind a tree just across the yard. This is a very strong start for a debut novelist—I'll be keeping my eye on her to see what she conjures up next."
See below for all of our V.I.B. selections to date. Happy Reading!
