Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
Back Bay Books ©2004
Book Jacket Summary: 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 the 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 or redemption. Writhing 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.
Review: Shreve is a clear writer that creates characters worth caring about. This novel explores a father-daughter relationship in the midst of grief and pent-up emotions. Shreve beautifully weaves past and present in this haunting story of memory, love, and transforming grief into hope.
Rating: A quick read that will linger in your mind for days.
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