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In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty the opposite of the life she's left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she'd become, but elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy's daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white. Among them, Boy, Snow, and Bird confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold.
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Boy, snow, bird, Helen Oyeyemi
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- Released
- 2015
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- Title
- Boy, snow, bird
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Helen Oyeyemi
- Publisher
- Picador
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1447237145
- ISBN13
- 9781447237143
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Children's Books, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Fairy Tales & Stories, English Literature, Race, Racism, Magical Realism, Identity, Symbolism
- First published
- 2014
- Original title
- Boy, Snow, Bird
- Rating
- 3.35 out of 5
- Description
- In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty the opposite of the life she's left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she'd become, but elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy's daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white. Among them, Boy, Snow, and Bird confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold.