{"id":35980,"date":"2014-03-04T04:43:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T04:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35980"},"modified":"2023-01-25T02:05:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T02:05:11","slug":"boy-snow-bird-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35980","title":{"rendered":"Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Riverhead Press (an imprint of Penguin Press)
\n2014-03-06
\n320 pages
\n5.74 x 8.58in
\nHardcover ISBN: 9781594631399<\/p>\n

Helen Oyeyemi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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From the prizewinning author of Mr. Fox<\/em>, the Snow White fairy tale brilliantly recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity.<\/p>\n

In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty\u2014the opposite of the life she\u2019s left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman.<\/p>\n

A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she\u2019d become, but elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy\u2019s daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing<\/a> for white. Among them, Boy, Snow, and Bird confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold.<\/p>\n

Dazzlingly inventive and powerfully moving, Boy, Snow, Bird<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel Riverhead Press (an imprint of Penguin Press) 2014-03-06 320 pages 5.74 x 8.58in Hardcover ISBN: 9781594631399 Helen Oyeyemi From the prizewinning author of Mr. Fox, the Snow White fairy tale brilliantly recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity. In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,6462],"tags":[2633,10924],"class_list":["post-35980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-passing-2","tag-helen-oyeyemi","tag-riverhead-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64115,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35980\/revisions\/64115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}