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Ice Out

A Novel

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Francesca Bodin's near perfect life is upended when a snowmobiling accident lands her, her husband Ben, and their four-year-old daughter in frozen lake. When he gets out, leaving them to die, she realizes her life isn't as perfect as she thought it was.
Francesca Bodin has a near-perfect life as an accomplished music teacher and professional flutist living in the Vermont countryside with her husband Ben, and their four-year old daughter, Addie. This ends suddenly when a snowmobiling accident traps the three of them in a frozen lake. Ben, after escaping onto the ice, leaves her and Addie to die.

Francesca believes she sees their dog pull Addie from the lake and drag her into the nearby woods. Desperate to help her daughter, she crawls from the icy waters and follows them. Once she enters the forest, however, she finds herself trapped in a sinister, dream-like world where night never ends, where Addie's whereabouts remain hidden from her, and where she encounters a group of women who, like Francesca, have been left to die and now seek to unleash their revenge on those who have harmed them. When they have Ben in their sights, Francesca realizes that if she is ever to escape this nightmare and save her daughter, she must first save the husband who abandoned them.

While Francesca's pilgrimage through this bleak landscape is on the surface a desperate attempt to find her daughter and reestablish her life as it was before the accident, it ultimately becomes an allegorical journey that takes her from despair to hope, from grief to acceptance, and from bitterness to forgiveness.
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      March 25, 2022
      Francesca Bodin has a fairy-tale life: handsome husband Ben, precocious daughter Addie, a loyal dog, a good job, and a beautiful home in rural Vermont. This fairy tale is shattered when, on a winter snowmobile ride, Ben loses control and he, Addie, and Francesca fall into the frozen lake. Ben is able to pull himself to the shore and selfishly runs away leaving Francesca and Addie in the water. As Francesca struggles to free herself and find her daughter, she flashes back to meeting Ben, their love story, Addie's birth, and all of their happy memories. The perspective then switches to Ben; his memories centered around the tragic death of his twin sister, Lucy; and his untreated trauma from witnessing her gruesome end. When the perspective switches back to Francesca, the author introduces fantastical elements as Francesca has freed herself from the lake and encounters a coven of mystical women in the woods. Adventurous readers might enjoy this slow-moving novel that grapples with perceptions of reality as well as ideas of forgiveness and moving on from tragedy.

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