Marie Vingtras was born in Rennes, France, in 1972. Her debut novel, Blizzard, is the winner of twelve literary prizes in France, including the Prix Libr’à Nous, the Prix Talents Cultura, and the Prix des libraires, the French booksellers’ prize for best novel of the year, and has sold more than 100,000 copies in France.

Jeffrey Zuckerman is a translator of French. A graduate of Yale University, he has been a finalist for the PEN Translation Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, and has been awarded a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant and the French Voices Grand Prize. In 2020 he was named a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

"A local Alaskan man and a California girl search in a terrible snow storm for a lost boy with the help of several unsavory and out-of-place helpers each carrying a dark secret in this award-winning French novel"--