Boy, snow, bird, Helen Oyeyemi
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Boy, snow, bird, Helen Oyeyemi
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Boy, snow, bird
Oclc number
852251423
Responsibility statement
Helen Oyeyemi
Summary
"The Snow White fairy tale brilliantly recast 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 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."--, Provided by publisher
Target audience
general
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