

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
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fairy Tales & Legends
Author: Helen Oyeyemi
Narrator: Susan Bennett, Carra Patterson
Unabridged: 9 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 03/06/2014
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fairy Tales & Legends
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.
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
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