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Also by Helen Oyeyemi:

A New New Me, September 2025
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Parasol Against the Axe, March 2024
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Peaces, April 2021
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Gingerbread, March 2019
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Gingerbread, March 2019
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Boy, Snow, Bird, March 2014
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Mr. Fox, October 2011
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The Icarus Girl, June 2005
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Boy, Snow, Bird
Helen Oyeyemi

Riverhead
March 2014
On Sale: March 6, 2014
Featuring: Snow Whitman; Boy Novak; Bird Whitman
320 pages
ISBN: 1594631395
EAN: 9781594631399
Hardcover
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Fiction Family Life

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 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 elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy’s daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white. Among them, Boy, Snow, and Bird confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold.

Dazzlingly inventive and powerfully moving, Boy, Snow, Bird 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.

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