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Boy, snow, bird / Helen Oyeyemi.

Oyeyemi, Helen. (Author).

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 lightskinned 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780143187431 (trade pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 308 p. ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Hamish Hamilton, c2014.
Subject: Stepmothers > Fiction.
Male-Female Romance > Fiction
Marriage > Fiction
Family > Fiction
Mothers and Daughters > Fiction
Racial Identity > Fiction
Passing (Identity) > Fiction.
Massachusetts > Fiction.
Genre: Fairy tales > Adaptations.
Fantasy fiction.
Black fiction.

Available copies

  • 17 of 18 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tumbler Ridge Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 18 total copies.
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