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Boy, snow, bird : a novel / Helen Oyeyemi.

Title: Boy, snow, bird : a novel / Helen Oyeyemi.
Author: Oyeyemi, Helen
Publication: New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.

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308 pages; 22 cm

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"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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