Boy, snow, bird : a novel

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Label

Boy, snow, bird : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Helen Oyeyemi

Creator

• Oyeyemi, Helen

Subject

• Massachusetts -- Fiction
• Passing (Identity) -- Fiction
• Fairy tales -- Adaptations
• Stepmothers -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Adaptations

Language

eng

Summary

• "A reimagining of the Snow White story set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s"--
• 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 the birth of Boy's daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white. Now Boy, Snow, and Bird must confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction