01896cam a2200349 i 4500 626019310 TxAuBib 20140305120000.0 130705s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013025053 9781594631399 hardback, trade 1594631395 hardback, trade (OCoLC)852251423 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda rda DLC rda IG# DLC OCO YDXCP BTCTA BDX DYJ DAD ILC TXAAL TxAuBib IG# OCO YDXCP BTCTA BDX DYJ DAD ILC TXAAL TxAuBib rda Oyeyemi, Helen. Boy, snow, bird : a novel / Helen Oyeyemi. New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014. 308 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A reimagining of the Snow White story set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s"-- Provided by publisher. 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 the birth of Boy's daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white. Now Boy, Snow, and Bird must confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold. 20140305. Fairy tales Adaptations. Passing (Identity) Fiction. Stepmothers Fiction. Massachusetts Fiction. Fantasy fiction. Fiction. TXAAL