The Snow Hare

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Lichtarowics explores the intersections of survival, salvation, and hope through the eyes of Lena, spanning from her ambition as a teen to her isolation in marriage to her transformation in motherhood. This exploration grounded by the complexity and fullness of Lena's character. From the beginning, Lena is different than many of her peers, but Lichtarowics doesn't rely on "not-like-other-girls" tropes to endear Lena (on the contrary, Lena's practical way of thinking is sometimes taken to such extremes that she alienates everyone--including the reader). It's Lena's resolve, and the way she she allows herself to be shaped by love in hostile and isolating environments, that make her so compelling and make her story quietly inspiring.

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Lena sees the girl far off on the steppe, running towards the horizon where a red sun is sinking. Her elbows jab the air as if to break it. Dust flies up from her heels as she runs.Despite the fact that I thought it was really interesting, watching how the war affected Lena's hometown. The Soviet soldiers came, and everything changed. Neighbours are turned against each other; everyone is living under the fear of being labelled as an "Enemy of the State", and made to disappear. Adult snowshoe hares can travel up to three meters in just one leap and can reach speeds up to 45 kilometers per hour. Brown, R. D. & Mote, P. W. The response of Northern Hemisphere snow cover to a changing climate. J. Clim. 22, 2124–2145 (2009).

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Lepus americanus americanus (Erxleben) – Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Montana, and North Dakota As she lies dying, Lena drifts through time. She sees her girlhood in Lublin, Poland; her early young adulthood as an officer’s wife in the Polish mountains; and the most terrifying time of her life in Siberia as a prisoner of the Soviets. Over and over in Paula Lichtarowicz’s affecting novel, The Snow Hare, Lena confronts the loss of choice as she is taken here and there across Europe, losing and gaining family with each roll of history’s dice. With Lena, we have to wonder whether not free will is an illusion or if we can exert any power over what happens to us... The snowshoe hare is the most important small game animal in North America, being a predator for many other species. Krebs, C. J. et al. What factors determine cyclic amplitude in the snowshoe hare ( Lepus americanus) cycle? Can. J. Zool. 92, 1039–1048 (2014).

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Exclosure experiments in Alberta indicated browsing by snowshoe hares during population peaks has the greatest impact on palatable species, thus further reducing the amount of available foods. In this study, insufficient nutritious young browse was available to sustain the number of snowshoe hares present in the peak years (1971 and 1972) in winter. [22] Ims, R. A., Henden, J.-A. & Killengreen, S. T. Collapsing population cycles. Trends Ecol. Evol. 23, 79–86 (2008). It was a bit disorienting in the beginning, but once I knew what was happening, I became engrossed in her story. Living in Poland when the Soviets invaded, her life was turned upside down when her family was sent to a Siberian camp. one that seems to have grown for the sole purpose of poking and prodding at whatever has the misfortune to lie beneath.’They blend in well with their surroundings because of their seasonal variation in fur color, from brown in summer to almost pure white in winter. The gradual shedding of the coat and replacement of the guard hairs occurs two times per year and is triggered by changes in day-length. In national parks across interior Alaska, they inhabit spruce forests as well as shrubby habitats in riparian areas. In many areas of the boreal forest, snowshoe hares are the dominant herbivore.