Light On Snow, by Anita Shreve

National bestseller, by the author of The Pilot's Wife! "What makes a family? That's what twelve-year old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons and the unexpected visitor who soon turns up at their door - a young woman evidently haunted by her own terrible choices - face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak or redemption. Writing with all the emotional resonance that has drawn millions of readers around the world to her fixtion, Anita Shreve unfolds in Light on Snow a tender and surprising novel about love and its consequences." Paperback, 305 pages. Includes Reading Group Guide.