Boy, Snow, Bird
As seen on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where it was described as “gloriously unsettling . . . evoking Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Angela Carter, Edgar Allan Poe, Gabriel García Márquez, Chris Abani and even Emily Dickinson."
“Helen Oyeyemi has fully transformed from a literary prodigy into a powerful, distinctive storyteller. . . . Transfixing and surprising.” —Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A)
“I don’t care what the magic mirror says; Oyeyemi is the cleverest in the land . . . daring and unnerving. . . . Under Oyeyemi’s spell, the fairy-tale conceit makes a brilliant setting in which to explore the alchemy of racism, the weird ways in which identity can be transmuted in an instant—from beauty to beast…
$19.95
March 3, 2015Helen 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.