I’ve been thinking more about Eowyn Ivey’s The Snow Child, specifically about the ending. What makes the first two-thirds of the book so interesting is Ivey’s ability to hold possibilities in suspension. Is Faina a snow child, magically born out of the snowgirl Mabel and her husband Jack made? Or is she just a normal girl, living alone in the
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(The sequel to Stargirl actually illustrates this point well. Stargirl becomes the narrator, and she suddenly seems like a very normal girl - strangely obsessed with her boyfriend from the previous book, but still, pretty normal. It's hard to connect her narration with the kind of Manic Pixie Dreamgirl way that Leo presented her in the first book ( ... )
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It's probably a difficult balance to pull off.
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