Snow is sent away to be raised by an aunt, and the book’s middle section is narrated by Bird, who is as whip smart, wry, and irresistible as Boy. Boy, who is white, discovers that her husband’s family are African-Americans passing as white. When their daughter, Bird, is born, she is noticeably “colored,” though her half-sister, Snow (Arturo’s daughter), appears not to be. She washes up in a small New England town where she meets Arturo Whitman, a widower who becomes her husband. The story begins with Boy’s headlong escape from her abusive father in New York City. Set in the 1950s Massachusetts, the novel is a retelling of the Snow White tale that plays on the concept of “fairest of them all,” complete with mirrors as a recurring motif. Fox) is about a woman named Boy her stepdaughter, Snow and her daughter, Bird. With breathtaking feats of imagination, Helen Oyeyemi confirms her place as one of the most original and dynamic literary voices of our time.The latest novel from Oyeyemi (Mr. Dazzlingly inventive and powerfully moving, Boy, Snow, Bird is an astonishing and enchanting novel.
Among them, Boy, Snow, and Bird confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold. 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. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. 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. Fox, the Snow White fairy tale brilliantly recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity.
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