Boy, Snow, Bird

Oyeyemi, Helen

ISBN 10: 0143187430 / ISBN 13: 9780143187431

Published by Hamish Hamilton, 2014

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Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # GRP95537890

Bibliographic Details

Title: Boy, Snow, Bird

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton

Publication Date: 2014

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis:

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 lightskinned  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.

Dazzlingly inventive and powerfully moving , Boy, Snow, Bird 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.

About the Author:

Helen Oyeyemi  is the author of five novels, most recently White Is for Witching, which won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award, and Mr. Fox, which won a 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. In 2013, she was named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. She lives in Prague.