I tore through this book and then took quite some time to attempt to process it. In the end I think the best that I can do is to recommend reading this book. The story could be historical fiction, it could be fantasy, but I think classifying it as one thing is limiting. It starts in 1953 and with...
I honestly wasn't expecting to enjoy this as much as I did - I tend to find that mainstream literary fiction leaves me cold, but Boy, Snow, Bird was lovely and haunting and lyrical and terrible. It's difficult to talk about without spoilers - Boy, Snow, Bird is definitely one of those novels that ...
I wavered for a long time between giving this book 3 and 4 stars. Oyeyemi draws on just the right amount of fairy tale tropes, but the abrupt and out of the blue ending and the lack of perspective from Snow's life living with Clara tipped the scale towards 3. After I've had a few more days to chew o...
I am guessing this was probably the most twisted retelling of Snow White I have ever read. My feelings are a bit conflicted on this, though they always seem to be on Helen Oyeyemi novels. They are weird. Lyrical and often intriguing, but I'm never sure I really feel like I get the payoff at the en...
"She ought to know that where there's a queen there's often a plot to overthrow her." This book threw me for a loop. I thought I would be reading a Snow White re-telling set in the 1950's-60's; instead, I felt that this was really an examination of racial relations, family and gender with some ele...
Is there any relationship so fraught as the one between mothers and daughters? There is so much emotional, cultural, and historical baggage just waiting for the moment when a mother and daughter first set eyes on each other that its no wonder Freud had so much material to work with when he was start...
I'm wavering between 3.5 and 4 stars. For most of this book, the charismatic, enigmatic characters and their mysteries wrapped me up and pulled me in. I was not ready for the book to stop when it did. I wanted to know more about the sisters' strange relatonship with mirrors, wondered if Frank's dire...
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