From The New York Times bestselling author of Prayers for Sale comes the moving and powerful story of a small town after a devastating avalanche, and the life changing effects it has on the people who live there Whiter Than Snow opens in 1920, on a spring afternoon in Swandyke, a small town near Colorados Tenmile Range. Just moments after four oclock, a large split of snow separates from Jubilee Mountain high above the tiny hamlet and hurtles down the rocky slope, enveloping everything in its path including nine young children who are walking home from school. But only four children survive. Whiter Than Snow takes you into the lives of each of these families Theres Lucy and Dolly Patch—two sisters, long estranged by a shocking betrayal. Joe Cobb, Swandykes only black resident, whose love for his daughter Jane forces him to flee Alabama.
