Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

Helen Oyeyemi's Novel Boy, Snow, Bird

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 5, 2014

Helen Oyeyemi talks about her novel Boy, Snow, Bird. In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking for a new life. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. When Bird has a baby who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white.

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