Bibliograph

Boy, snow, bird, Helen Oyeyemi

Type

Label

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

"A reimagining of the Snow White story set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s"--, Provided by publisherIn 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 the birth of Boy's daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white. Now Boy, Snow, and Bird must confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold

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