The Snow Room

When Colin finds a box of strange photographs in his grandmother’s house, he thinks they are old, unsettling family relics.Then snow begins falling from one of the pictures.A moment later, Colin is standing inside the place where the photographs were taken: an endless room of bunk beds and snow, filled with people who are waiting for journeys they do not fully understand. Some are quiet. Some are frightened. Some are angry. Some are preparing to walk through a far door into a light they cannot explain.They say they are going to visit the dead.But Colin slowly discovers the terrible and merciful truth: the people in the Snow Room are already dead.As he searches for his brothers, Evan and Luke, Colin begins to recover the memory he has been unable to face: the rain, the car, the red blanket, the sound of glass, and the crash that brought them there. But the Snow Room is not the end. Beyond the far door waits the mountain, the Cross, and the mercy that can heal what denial can only preserve.Haunting, tender, and luminous, The Snow Room is a Catholic fantasy about death, grief, purgatory, brotherhood, and the hope that nothing given to God is lost. Read more