As Simple as Snow

Gregory Galloway

ISBN 10: 0425207803 / ISBN 13: 9780425207802

Published by Penguin Putnam Inc, 2006

About this Item

It begins as a romance between two teenagers searching for a deeper meaning in life in their small town. When the enigmatic Anna--who prefers to go by Anastasia--shows up in the halls of Hamilton High, she changes the narrator's life, opening his mind to Baudelaire and Mozart and revealing a world of magic tricks, ghost stories, and affectionate mind games. Together the couple probe through enchanted woods, the Internet, and everything in between--until, one winter evening a week before Valentine's Day, Anastasia disappears, leaving only a dress on a frozen river. Suddenly alone, the narrator is hit with the weight of life's less playful mysteries, possible signs from the supernatural, and the mystery of what actually happened to his missing love. Determined to find Anna, he begins to retrace their past five months together and finds that the fragments of memory coalesce into haunting revelations. A mesmerizing labyrinth of art, magic, and cryptic codes that sparks the imagination and teases the intellect, As Simple as Snow is a mind-bending mystery, as well as a poignant and wise look at young love, loss, and family.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: As Simple as Snow
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0425207803
• ISBN 13: 9780425207802
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

"Anna Cayne had moved here in August, just before our sophomore year in high school, but by February she had, one by one, killed everyone in town."

Anna—who prefers to be called Anastasia—is a slightly spooky and complicated high school girl with a penchant for riddles, Houdini tricks, and ghost stories. She spends much of her time writing obituaries for every living person in town. She is unlike anyone the narrator has ever known, and they make an unlikely, though happy, pair.

Then a week before Valentine's Day, Anna disappears, leaving behind only a dress placed neatly near a hole in the frozen river, and a string of unanswered questions. Desperate to find her, or at least to comprehend what happened and why, the narrator begins to reconstruct the past five months. And soon the fragments of curious events, intimate conversations, secrets, and peculiar letters (and the anonymous messages that continue to arrive) coalesce into haunting and surprising revelations that may implicate friends, relatives, and even Anna herself.

About the Author

Gregory Galloway has an MFA from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He lives in New Jersey.