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Author:

Oyeyemi, Helen.

Title:

Boy, snow, bird : a novel / Helen Oyeyemi.

Publisher:

Riverhead Booksa member of Penguin Group (USA),

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

308 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Fairy tales--Adaptations.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology.
FICTION / General.
Passing (Identity)--Fiction.
Stepmothers--Fiction.
Massachusetts--Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.

Summary:

"A reimagining of the Snow White story set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s"-- Provided by publisher.
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 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.

ISBN:

1594631395 (hardback)
9781594631399 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)852251423

LCCN:

2013025053

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