Research Catalog
Boy, snow, bird
- Title
- Boy, snow, bird / Helen Oyeyemi.
- Author
- Oyeyemi, Helen.
- Publication
- London : Picador, 2014.
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- Description
- 308 p.; 23 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Fairy tales > Adaptations
- Call Number
- JFD 14-4206
- ISBN
- 9781447237136
- 1447237137
- OCLC
- 864789308
- Author
- Oyeyemi, Helen.
- Title
- Boy, snow, bird / Helen Oyeyemi.
- Publisher
- London : Picador, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-4206