Light on Snow

Anita Shreve · first published 2004 · ISBN 9780316726665

A woman and her teenage daughter discover an abandoned newborn in the snow near their New Hampshire home. Rather than immediately contact authorities, they take the baby in for one night, one day. That decision sets off a chain reaction that unravels the careful life the mother has built in isolation. She must confront the reason she and her daughter are living in seclusion and face the question of what it means to save a life when one's own is in pieces.