Eowyn Ivey's The Snow Child
Teen Creeps
Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katai
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
This week Kelly and Katai read THE SNOW CHILD by Eowyn Ivey, the story of a homesteading couple in 1920s Alaska who conjure a child made of snow and a shit ton of tears. They talk love, loss, parenthood, richly realized characters, stunning descriptions of nature, straightforward but poetic prose, and cry cry cry cry cry.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on the podcast, Yuan ivy's The Snow Child. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome to Teen Creeps, the podcast that discusses why Pulp Fiction and more. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm one of your host, Lindsay K. Tai. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm another one of your host, Kelly Nugent. |
| 0:13.3 | And today we are talking about The Snow Child by Yuen Ivy, which we both thought was a new book. |
| 0:21.5 | Definitely thought it was new. |
| 0:22.5 | 2012. |
| 0:23.6 | Published in 2012. |
| 0:25.7 | Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2012. |
| 0:30.0 | A debut novel. |
| 0:31.1 | A debut novel. |
| 0:34.4 | Did you read all the acknowledgments in the story of how it came to be I did I really liked it |
| 0:39.5 | yeah also reading her acknowledgments I was like you're cool you're cool you're cool you're cool |
| 0:44.7 | no ego you're just yourself you're just yourself and you used your actual knowledge of homesteading |
| 0:51.7 | from your own life no I was? I was like, of course. |
| 0:55.0 | Well, it felt so real. It felt real. It made everything make sense. Because if this was like by |
| 1:00.5 | some 20 year old in Ireland, I was going to be like, what the fuck. Yeah. No, but this bitch lives |
| 1:05.0 | in Alaska. Mm-hmm. And works in a bookstore. I was like, you live maybe kind of a really cool life. Yeah, and she's |
| 1:12.7 | got two kids. She wrote it while, like, every night after putting her second child down, |
| 1:18.5 | I was like, damn, well, every excuse I invent for myself is bullshit because you have a full-time |
| 1:26.2 | job and two kids. And you're, or at least setting, what the fuck? |
| 1:29.7 | You hunt for your food. |
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