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Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi5/28/2023 ![]() 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. ![]() Under Oyeyemi's spell, the fairy-tale conceit makes a brilliant setting in which to explore the alchemy of racism, the weird ways in which identity can be transmuted in an instant - from beauty to beast or vice versa." - Ron Charles, The Washington Postįrom the prizewinning author of What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Gingerbread, and Peaces comes a brilliant recasting of the Snow White fairy tale as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity. "I don't care what the magic mirror says Oyeyemi is the cleverest in the land.daring and unnerving. ![]() "Helen Oyeyemi has fully transformed from a literary prodigy into a powerful, distinctive storyteller.Transfixing and surprising."- Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A) evoking Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Angela Carter, Edgar Allan Poe, Gabriel García Márquez, Chris Abani and even Emily Dickinson," and already one of the year's most widely acclaimed novels: ![]() Description As seen on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where it was described as "gloriously unsettling. ![]()
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