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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
gert10
Since: Jun, 2016

I read this some time around 2014, iirc there's a young girl who's father is a geneticist in a nuclear winter Russia. Her father is trying to make creatures that will preserve the genes of all mammals(?) and creates these little fuzzy things that he calls "Lindquists". His goal is to smuggle them out of the country, but he is arrested before he can, and so the girl MC is tasked with caring for them all on her own while trying to keep herself alive and out of the secret policy's custody. A lot of the book is her struggle to feed herself and stay warm in the harsh elements, and angsting over the health of the little Lindquists. (Idk if this helps but the Lindquists were described as small ferret like creatures)