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**Named one of 2014’s most anticipated books by CNN, The Huffington Post, Bookpage, Time.com, __The Chicago Tribune__, Vulture****, __Philadelphia Inquirer,__ __Real Simple,__****The Millions and Flavorwire****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 beautythe 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

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Author

Helen Oyeyemi

Publisher

Riverhead Hardcover

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101613108

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical

Rating

3.34 / 5 (18,111 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13