In "The Snow Child," first-time novelist Eowyn Ivey plays with the Russian tale "The Snow Maiden," turning it into a stunning and startling adult novel, full of wonder, longing, hope, pain and beauty.

In ‘To the Bright Edge of the World,’ Eowyn Ivey charts a bold course for her writing Memorial Day Sale: Only 50¢ for 6 months Skip to Main Content Skip to footer ...

Eowyn Ivey read from her new novel, “To the Bright Edge of the World,” in Palmer in early August. (Bill Roth / Alaska Dispatch News) The views expressed here are the writer's and are not ...

In "To the Bright Edge of the World," Eowyn Ivey's highly anticipated follow-up to her debut novel, "The Snow Child," the late 19th-century Alaskan frontier is the setting for a physical, ...

First-time novelist Eowyn Ivey has turned a Russian fairy tale into a “stunning and startling adult novel, full of wonder, pain, and beauty,” said Sarah Willis in the Cleveland Plain Dealer ...

By Eowyn Ivey; Random House, 2025; 306 pages; $29. Eowyn Ivey’s debut novel “The Snow Child,” in 2012, became an international bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Eowyn Ivey follows up The Snow Child, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, with the excellent To the Bright Edge of the World.The novel centers on an 1885 wilderness expedition in which Colonel ...

In an 1850 essay on “Hawthorne and His Mosses,” Herman Melville argues that no matter how much has already been written on a given topic, “The trillionth part has not yet been sai… ...

That's essentially what happens in Eowyn Ivey's "The Snow Child," but the author has transported the story to her native Alaska and fleshed it out with an endearing set of characters.

Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and ...

By Eowyn Ivey. BLACK WOODS, BLUE SKY (Random House, 306 pp., $29), by the Pulitzer Prize finalist Eowyn Ivey, features another mother who resents the expectation of perfection.