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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oyeyemi, Helen.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fairy tales--Adaptations.

Fairy tales.

Passing (Identity)--Fiction.

Passing (Identity).

Stepmothers--Fiction.

Stepmothers.

Massachusetts--Fiction.

Massachusetts.

Genre:

Fiction.

Fantasy fiction.

Adaptations.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 308 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.

Summary:

"A reimagining of the Snow White story set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

"Book design by Nicole Laroche."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

9781594631399

1594631395

OCLC:

852251423