Gingerbread
A Novel
"Exhilarating. . . . A wildly imagined, head-spinning, deeply intelligent novel." —The New York Times Book Review
"Wildly inventive. . . . [Helen Oyeyemi's] prose is not without its playful bite." —Vogue
The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and imaginative novel.
Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories, the beloved bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours invites readers into a delightfully inventive and bewitching novel about a surprising family legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe.
Perdita Lee may appear your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate…
$24.95
March 5, 2019
Helen Oyeyemi is the author of seven novels, including Peaces, Gingerbread, and Boy, Snow, Bird, and of the story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. Winner of the PEN Open Book and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Oyeyemi was named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists.
A New New Me
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Parasol Against the Axe
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Peaces
Helen Oyeyemi
Gingerbread
Helen Oyeyemi
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
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Boy, Snow, Bird
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Mr. Fox
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White is for Witching
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The Opposite House
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Icarus Girl
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Heavenly Bodies
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A Sweet Sting of Salt
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Cold
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The Centaur's Wife
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Bunny
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Gun Island
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House of Names
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White as Milk, Red as Blood
Franz Xaver von Schoenwerth Willow Dawson, illustrator, and Shelley Tanaka, translator
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
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The Once & Future King
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Boy, Snow, Bird
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Brothers Grimm
The Hungry Ghosts
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Hamlet's Twin
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