In the bleak, snowbound New England village of Starkfield, a visitor pieces together the story of Ethan Frome, a silent, broken farmer bound to a sickly, bitter wife. When her young cousin Mattie Silver comes to help keep house, a quiet, forbidden tenderness grows between Ethan and Mattie through one long winter, until a single desperate night on an icy sledding hill changes three lives forever. Edith Wharton's haunting 1911 classic of longing, duty and fate.
