Helen Oyeyemi
Boy, Snow, Bird
- ISBN 13:
- 9781594633409
- author:
- Helen Oyeyemi
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Riverhead Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2015
- Pages:
- 336
- Dimensions:
- 13 x 2.2 x 20.3 cm
- Genre:
- Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Fairy Tales
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
Boy Snow Bird is a novel that transforms the classic fairy tale into a story of family secrets, race, beauty and vanity. In 1953, Boy Novak arrives in a small Massachusetts town looking for beauty, but finds herself becoming a wicked stepmother to her husband's daughter, Snow.
The arrival of Boy's dark-skinned daughter, Bird, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African-Americans passing for white, and their estrangement is complicated by an insistent curiosity about one another. As elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out, Boy, Snow and Bird are forced to confront the alchemy of racism and identity.
This powerful and surprising novel explores the ways in which identity can be transmuted in an instant, from beauty to beast or vice versa. With its unique blend of literary style and magical realism, Boy Snow Bird is a thought-provoking and unsettling read.
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