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Boy, Snow, Bird
Boy Snow Bird
Author: Helen Oyeyemi
From the prizewinning author of What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours and 2019's Gingerbread, comes a brilliant recasting of the Snow White fairy tale 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 Massachusett...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781594633409
ISBN-10: 1594633401
Publication Date: 3/3/2015
Pages: 336
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  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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3.2 stars, based on 16 ratings
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
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I'm glad to have read this - inventive, memorable characters, assured writing not too impressed with itself. I think I wish the story had been wrapped up a little bit better. Unless I really missed something, I didn't feel the fantasy elements were carried through to the "finish line."
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it was already a bit problematic, but then it took a sharp turn into horrible transphobia


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