From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of City of Girls and Eat Pray Love, a dramatic story of one wild and mysterious girl in a pristine wilderness, and of the mystical connection between humans and the natural world.
What does it take to escape the world?
In a remote, high-altitude corner of Siberia, a lone family of religious fundamentalists lives isolated and undetected. Since retreating in the 1930s, they have scrounged off the cold and unforgiving land, refusing all contact with society even as they raise their children. Untethered from human progress, unaware even of the events of WWII, their knowledge and beliefs remain frozen in time, until their mountaintop homestead is finally discovered.
In 1980, one unlikely woman is sent to bridge the chasm between modern existence and the family's ancient, snow forest life. She has spent her life in a different kind of hiding, and what she discovers in the taiga, and in the unique youngest girl, will prove stranger and more miraculous than anything she ever expected, upturning her own quiet life forever.
