NATIONAL BESTSELLER \u2022 The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist\u00a0<\/b>The Snow Child<\/i><\/b>\u00a0returns to the mythical landscapes of Alaska with an unforgettable dark fairy tale that asks the question: Can love save us from ourselves?<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cNo one writes like Eowyn Ivey.\u201d\u2014Geraldine Brooks<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cYou will find yourself in places you have never been.\u201d\u2014Louise Erdrich<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cIvey is an enthralling storyteller.\u201d\u2014<\/b>The New York Times Book Review<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Birdie\u2019s keeping it together; of course she is. So she\u2019s a little hungover, sometimes, and she has to bring her daughter, Emaleen, to her job waiting tables at an Alaskan roadside lodge, but she\u2019s getting by as a single mother in a tough town. Still, Birdie can remember happier times from her youth, when she was free in the wilds of nature.<\/p>\n
Arthur Neilsen, a soft-spoken and scarred recluse who appears in town only at the change of seasons, brings Emaleen back to safety when she gets lost in the woods. Most people avoid him, but to Birdie, he represents everything she\u2019s ever longed for. She finds herself falling for Arthur and the land he knows so well.<\/p>\n
Against the warnings of those who care about them, Birdie and Emaleen move to his isolated cabin in the mountains, on the far side of the Wolverine River.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s just the three of them in the vast black woods, far from roads, telephones, electricity, and outside contact, but Birdie believes she has come prepared. At first, it\u2019s idyllic and she can picture a happily ever after: Together they catch salmon, pick berries, and climb mountains so tall it\u2019s as if they could touch the bright blue sky. But soon Birdie discovers that Arthur is something much more mysterious and dangerous than she could have ever imagined, and that like the Alaska wilderness, a fairy tale can be as dark as it is beautiful.<\/p>\n
Black Woods, Blue Sky<\/i>\u00a0is a novel with life-and-death stakes, about the love between a mother and daughter, and the allure of a wild life\u2014about what we gain and what it might cost us.<\/p>\n