Light on Snow
What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons and an unexpected visitor who soon turns up at their door-a young woman evidently haunted by her own terrible choices-face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak and redemption. Writing with all the emotional resonance that has drawn millions of readers around the world to her fiction, Anita Shreve unfolds in Light on Snow a tender and surprising novel about love and its consequences.
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Written 10/10/08
Another loaner from Nancy- pretty good story about a 12 year old girl and her father adjusting to life after a horrible car crash kills the mother and baby sister. They take a walk before sunset and discover a newborn girl left to die out in the snowy woods. They get the baby to the hospital- a few days later the mother of the baby shows up to thank them for helping the baby- she winds up stuck there for 2 days during a "white out". She is picked up by police as she is leaving the house. It ends with a scene of the baby doing well in her foster home-
Another loaner from Nancy- pretty good story about a 12 year old girl and her father adjusting to life after a horrible car crash kills the mother and baby sister. They take a walk before sunset and discover a newborn girl left to die out in the snowy woods. They get the baby to the hospital- a few days later the mother of the baby shows up to thank them for helping the baby- she winds up stuck there for 2 days during a "white out". She is picked up by police as she is leaving the house. It ends with a scene of the baby doing well in her foster home-
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