'Winterfolk' Cloaks Harsh Reality In Fairy Tale Mist
Janel Kolby's novel about a fairy-tale-loving young girl living in a homeless encampment outside of Seattle is a brutally realist tale, told as if it happened once-upon-a-time.
Winterfolk is a brutally realist tale that's told as though it happened once upon a time.
Rain and her father live in a tent, somewhere on the outskirts of Seattle. For most of Rain's life, they've made their home at the edges of a community of homeless people who call themselves the Winterfolk. Rain knows how to be mostly invisible, both to those outside the community and to those within.
She spends
