'I watched my father run forward in his snowshoes the way one sometimes does in dreams, unable to make the legs move fast enough. I ran to the place where he knelt. I looked down into the sleeping bag. A tiny face gazed up at me, the eyes wide despite their many folds. The baby was wrapped in a bloody towel, and its lips were blue.' The events of a December afternoon on which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow will forever alter eleven-year-old Nicky Dillon's understanding of the world which she is about to enter and the adults who inhabit it: a father who has taken great pains to remove himself from society in order to put behind him an unthinkable tragedy; a young woman who must live with the consequences of the terrible choices she has made; and a detective whose cleverness is superseded only by his sense of justice. Written from the point of view of thirty-year-old Nicky as she recalls the vivid images of that fateful December, hers is a tale of love and courage, of tragedy and redemption, and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself.

"1000 books registered RABCK"

I'm giving the book to Niksu tomorrow, who will later give it to lukutuoli.

Got this from CandyDarling today. Thank you and congrats again for the 1000 registered book! Will read it and then pass on to lukutuoli.

And now I ended up having two journal entries with same text in it. Sorry...

I think I did the journal entry for this book but somehow it's not here anymore. Strange.

This was first Anita Shreve for me. I liked the story but it wasn't excellent. The story is kind of sad. It's told from twelve year old Nicky's point of view who is dealing things she's too youg to face. I was hoping the ending will be something else, a twist maybe but now it left me thinking this was it?

The book is already traveling to lukutuoli. Enjoy!

I came back from my holiday trip this afternoon and this book was at home waiting for me. It was a nice surprise! Thank you so much, CandyDarling, for your RABCK and Niksu for posting it to me. Anita Shreve is one of the authors I've become interested through bookcrossing though I've never read any of them.

This was a touching story with deep feelings, I found it mainly sad. Although this wasn't a funny book at all, I enjoyed to follow the story - it was easy to emotionally understand the little girl, who is telling in the book. I felt empathy for her father, too, and even for the mother, who almost killed her baby!
I was happy to get to know this author,Anita Shreve! I'll try to read something else written by her soon!

01.12.2006
Available in Book Relay (Girlfriend! You've got to read this!!)

01.12.2006
Totoroandmei accepted my book in this Book Relay, so Light on Snow will travel far away to Japan next week!

Thanks so much!