Boy, Snow, Bird

Named one of 2014’s most anticipated books by CNN, The Huffington Post, Bookpage, Time.com, The Chicago Tribune, Vulture, Philadelphia Inquirer, Real Simple, The Millions and Flavorwire

Helen Oyeyemi's novel "Boy, Snow, Bird" is, about Boy Novak who arrives in a small town in Massachusetts, looking for beauty, the opposite of the life she 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. Among them, Boy, Snow, and Bird confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold.

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