Description:
From the moment Ruth Sanders rips the glossy photo of a glacier from a magazine, she believes herself fated by ice. Her fascination bewilders sixteen-year-old Sylvie, unsettled already by her father s leaving. When Ruth s obsession grows to encompass a man, she uproots Sylvie and her sister from their small Midwestern town to follow him to Alaska. At the glacier, she and Sylvie tangle with wilderness, religion, a divided community, and one another. As their passions braid and cross, the exposed secrets of mother and daughter test their love.
In precise and evocative prose, "Cold Spell" tells the parallel stories of a mother who risks everything to start over and a daughter whose longings threaten to undo them."
Brief description:
Deb Vanasse is the author of nine books.
Review Quotes: "Cold Spell is an honest and compelling coming-of-age-in-the-wilderness tale where packing bear meat and scaling a glacier are rites of passage. Sixteen-year-old Sylvie and her family move north and learn that there's the dream of Alaska, and then there's waking up from that dream. Vanasse's characters in the fictional Alaskan town are rustic and real and all of them, including the adults, experience growing pains."--Melinda Moustakis, author of Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories