Boy, Snow, Bird
27 February 2014Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
The fifth novel from award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, named one of Granta's best young British novelists. A retelling of the Snow White myth, Boy, Snow, Bird is a deeply moving novel about an unbreakable bond . . .
BOY Novak turns twenty and decides to try for a brand-new life. Flax Hill, Massachusetts, isn't exactly a welcoming town, but it...
Details
27 February 2014288 pages
9781447237150Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A spellbinding, wholly original look at families and the secrets they keep . . . An absolutely amazing and absorbing readMarie Claire
Gloriously unsettling . . . it's clearly the book she's been waiting for . . . the greatest joy of reading Oyeyemi will always be style: jagged and capricious at moments, lush and rippled at others, always singular, like the voice-over of a fever dream.New York Times
Boy, Snow, Bird is a haunting, tender portrait of three women from one of our generation's most talented literary writersStylist
Boy, Snow, Bird is among my favorite new releases for this year already. A retelling of the Snow White fairy-tale that focuses on race, it's a sensitive, intelligent treatment of a subject most fiction still sidesteps. Fans of Adichie's Americanah who also like a little fantasy in their coffee will be enchanted, I think.Flavorwire
