Boy, Snow, Bird, Helen Oyeyemi
Boy, Snow, Bird, Helen Oyeyemi
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Boy, Snow, Bird

Author: Helen Oyeyemi

Narrator: Susan Bennett, Carra Patterson

Unabridged: 9 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/06/2014


Synopsis

From the prizewinning author of Mr. Fox , the Snow White fairy tale brilliantly recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity. 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 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 light-skinned African Americans passing for white. Among them, Boy, Snow, and Bird confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold. Dazzlingly inventive and powerfully moving , Boy, Snow, Bird is an astonishing and enchanting novel. With breathtaking feats of imagination, Helen Oyeyemi confirms her place as one of the most original and dynamic literary voices of our time.

About Helen Oyeyemi

Helen Oyeyemi was
born in Nigeria and raised in London. She is the author of The Icarus Girl, which was completed before her nineteenth
birthday, The Opposite House, which
was a nominee for the 2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and White Is for Witching, which won the
2010 Somerset Maugham Award.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ron

Once upon a time, there was a girl who left her home and traveled to a cold land far, far away. Sometimes she was very sad, and once she fell down a dark well, and no one knew if she would get out, but she did. She wrote a book and sold it for a pot of gold. People said, “Surely, she is one of the b......more

Goodreads review by Lala

I really could have loved this. Absurd writing and nonsensical storytelling is right up my alley. Then the second half came...and oh boy...what a mess.......more

An almost perfect 5 star book ruined by a non-ending. I'm furious. I want to strangle the author. Ok for a slightly more coherent rant: Part 1- Boy The story has connotations of Snow White and Cinderella while being skilfully placed in the 1950s (a nice touch by the author). It is steeped in magical re......more