Debbie White, raised on a farm with a mother whom, as many think, “doesn’t all have her head screwed on,” and with an uncle Billy who has a weakness for her mother’s brother’s drinking, enrolls at Ireland’s highest concentration of privileged snobs—Trinity College in the University of Dublin. For naive, sensitive Debbie, it’s an entirely different world. Will it accept her? Will she accept it? “Snowflake” is a very sincere and touching story about what it’s like to grow up in the twenty-first century.