Boy, Snow, Bird - Helen Oyeyemi torrent

Category: Adults, Contemporary, General Fiction, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Adult Adult Fiction Contemporary Fairy Tales Fantasy Fiction Literary Fiction Magical Realism Novels Retellings

Written by Helen Oyeyemi
Read by Susan Bennett, Carra Patterson
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

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 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.

Dazzlingly inventive and powerfully moving, Boy, Snow, Bird 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.

Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
Release date: 03-06-14