Smilla's Sense of Snow (2010)

Smilla distrusts the official account of a child's fatal fall because she reads the snow differently. Copenhagen's housing and the relationship between Denmark and Greenland give her knowledge, loyalties and outsider status practical consequences as the inquiry expands. The attraction is an observer whose understanding of a surface can challenge an institutional conclusion. Expect a movement from close investigation into a more extravagant conspiracy. Tiina Nunnally translates; the book is also known as Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow.