Boy, snow, bird
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Published
New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
ISBN
9781594631399, 1594631395
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
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Published
New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781594631399, 1594631395
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"From the prizewinning author of What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Gingerbread, and Peaces comes a brilliant recasting of the Snow White fairy tale 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 Arturo Whitman, a local widower, and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow. 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. And even as Boy, Snow, and Bird are divided, their estrangement is complicated by an insistent curiosity about one another. In seeking an understanding that is separate from the image each presents to the world, 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." -- amazon.com
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Oyeyemi, H. (2014). Boy, snow, bird . Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA).
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Oyeyemi, Helen. 2014. Boy, Snow, Bird. Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA).
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Oyeyemi, Helen. Boy, Snow, Bird Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Oyeyemi, Helen. Boy, Snow, Bird Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
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