Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel

Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel

As seen on the cover of theÂ New York Times Book Review, where it was described as â€œgloriously unsettlingâ€¦ evoking Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Angela Carter, Edgar Allan Poe, Gabriel GarcÃa MÃ¡rquez, Chris Abani and even Emily Dickinson,â€Â and already one of the yearâ€™s most widely acclaimed novels:

â€œHelen Oyeyemi has fully transformed from a literary prodigy into a powerful, distinctive storytellerâ€¦Transfixing and surprising.â€â€”Entertainment WeeklyÂ (Grade: A)

â€œI donâ€™t care what the magic mirror says; Oyeyemi is the cleverest in the landâ€¦daring and unnervingâ€¦ Under Oyeyemiâ€™s spell, the fairy-tale conceit makes a brilliant setting in which to explore the alchemy of racism, the weird ways in which identity can be transmuted in an instant â€” from beauty to beast or vice versa.â€ â€“ Ron Charles,Â The Washington Post

From the prizewinning author ofÂ What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours and 2019's Gingerbread, comesÂ a brilliant recasting of the Snow White fairy tale as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity.

In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts looking, she believes, for beautyâ€”the opposite of the life sheâ€™s left behind in New York. She marries Arturo Whitman, a local widower, and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow.

A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined sheâ€™d become, but elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boyâ€™s daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African-Americans passing for white.Â And even as Boy, Snow, and Bird are divided, their estrangement is complicated by an insistent curiosity about one another. In seeking an understanding that is separate from the image each presents to the world, Boy, Snow, and Bird confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold.Â

Dazzlingly inventive and powerfully moving,Â Boy, Snow, BirdÂ is an astonishing and enchanting novel. With breathtaking feats of imagination, Helen Oyeyemi confirms her place as one of the most original and dynamic literary voices of our time.
Country USA
Brand Riverhead Books
Manufacturer Riverhead Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 1594633401
Color Celadon/Pale green
ReleaseDate 2015-03-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781594633409

Country	USA
Brand	Riverhead Books
Manufacturer	Riverhead Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	1594633401
Color	Celadon/Pale green
ReleaseDate	2015-03-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781594633409

Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel

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