Eowyn Ivey

"In the winter of 1885, Colonel Allen Forrester leads a small band of men on an expedition up the Wolverine River to pierce the untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie, his pregnant wife, Forrester records his experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn't return. As they map the territory and gather information on the native tribes, Forrester and his men discover the blurred lines between human and wild animal, the living...

"Birdie splits her days between caring for her six-year-old daughter, Emaleen, and working as a waitress at a roadside lodge in Alaska. But this is not the life she'd dreamed of as a child. Back then, she had fantasized about being free in the world of nature. Arthur is a soft-spoken recluse--adopted as a boy under mysterious circumstances by a local couple who raised him as their own but understood that he could never fully fit into their world....

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.
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...