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Jun 01, 2018DorisWaggoner rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This wonderful, heartfelt book covers, in one way, just the year of 1885, when Allen leads a small Army expedition to Alaska's Wolverine River (stand-in for the Copper River in an actual expedition that took place that year) while his pregnant wife Sophie is required to stay in Fort Vancouver. I loved the epistolary nature of the book, which includes not just letters, but journal entries, official reports, photographs, descriptions of artifacts, drawings, etc. The book has an overlay consisting of modern letters between Allen's great nephew, who has found in his attic the collections from 1885, and the curator of a small Alaskan museum he wants to send it to. This is both a historical novel and a love story, with a touch of magical realism to it as well. I loved it! I haven't read "The Snow Child," but now I will. Ivey is an incredible, poetic writer.