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Boy, Snow, Bird

Written by: Helen Oyeyemi
Narrated by: Susan Bennett, Carra Patterson
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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.

©2014 Helen Oyeyemi (P)2014 Recorded Books
Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Fantasy
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The conclusion of this story is that the Trans person is bad because they're Trans

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This novel is the worst thing I’ve ever read (mandatory for a university course). It’s all over the place and follows no logical sequence. People say the author is a genius, but I just find her work confusing and, frankly, scattered. She aims to confront a multitude of social issues within yet, by choosing too many, she does a poor job at thoroughly (or truly) acknowledging any of them.

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