<DIV><b>From the prizewinning author of <i>Mr. Fox</i>, the Snow White fairy tale brilliantly recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity.</b><br><br> 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.<br><br> 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. Among them, Boy, Snow, and Bird confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold.<br><br> Dazzlingly inventive and powerfully moving<i>, Boy, Snow, Bird</i> is 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.<br></div>