From the prizewinning author of What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Gingerbread,andPeacescomes 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 Massachusetts looking, she believes, for beautythe opposite of the life shes left behind in New York. She marries Arturo Whitman, a local widower, and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow.

A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined shed become, but elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boys daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African-Americans passing for white.And even as Boy, Snow, and Bird are divided, their estrangement is complicated by an insistent curiosity about one another. In seeking an understanding that is separate from the image each presents to the world, 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, Birdis 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.

Helen Oyeyemi is the author of five novels, most recentlyWhite Is for Witching, which won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award,Mr. Fox, which won a 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, andBoy, Snow, Bird. In 2013, she was named one ofGranta‘s Best Young British Novelists. Oyeyemiis the author of the story collectionWhat Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, winner of the PEN Open Book Award, along with six novels, includingBoy, Snow, Bird, which was a finalist for the 2014Los Angeles TimesBook Prize. She lives in Prague.

• Publisher: Riverhead Books; Reprint edition (March 3, 2015)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 336pages
• ISBN-13: 9781594633409
• Item Weight: .6 pounds
• Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.9 x 7.9 inches
• BISAC Categories: Fantasy, Literary Fiction