Seeking Solitude...
Snow Island by Katherine Towler
Recommended by Lynn M. Piotrowicz
12/16/2016
The isolation and hardship that Towler writes about in Snow Island appeals to this reader, simply because she captures the ruggedness of humanity so succinctly. Towler’s characters don’t whine, they don’t have a fatalistic attitude; they just pull up their bootstraps or oilskins and proceed with life. Ever since reading about the woods woman life of Anne LaBastille, I have gravitated toward books that portray strong characters surviving under unusually difficult circumstances. As readers, I feel we all look for books that allow us to place ourselves in different settings or become the characters of those stories; not just voyeurs looking in but imagining that we are the person or living in the town with these people. READ MORE...