Boy, snow, bird
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2014
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"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. "--
"A reimagining of the Snow White story set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s"--
"A reimagining of the Snow White story set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s"--
Subjects
Subjects
Adaptations
African Americans
African Americans -- Fiction
Fairy tales
Fairy tales -- Adaptations
Fantasy fiction
Fiction
Large type books
Legends
Legends -- Fiction
Literature
Literature -- Fiction
Magic realism (Literature)
Magic realism (Literature) -- Fiction
Mythology
Mythology -- Fiction
Women
Women -- Fiction
African Americans
African Americans -- Fiction
Fairy tales
Fairy tales -- Adaptations
Fantasy fiction
Fiction
Large type books
Legends
Legends -- Fiction
Literature
Literature -- Fiction
Magic realism (Literature)
Magic realism (Literature) -- Fiction
Mythology
Mythology -- Fiction
Women
Women -- Fiction
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ISBN:
9781594631399
9781490614687
9781628991604
9781490614687
9781628991604
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"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. "--
"A reimagining of the Snow White story set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s"--
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Large type books
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Mythology -- Fiction
Women -- Fiction
African Americans -- Fiction
Fairy tales -- Adaptations
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Large type books
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Literature -- Fiction
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Mythology -- Fiction
Women -- Fiction
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Large type books
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Women
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Large type books
Legends
Literature
Magic realism (Literature)
Mythology
Women
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