![]() ![]() She thinks of the bracelet as evil step-mother jewellery, but she accepts it. ![]() On a weekend trip, Arturo proposes to Boy by giving her a bracelet shaped like a snake. While Boy and Arturo initially have a tempestuous relationship, they grow closer as Boy is enchanted by Snow. Arturo eventually tells Boy that he has a young daughter named Snow. In Flax Hill, Boy stumbles across a tenement house and begins to go on double dates with one of the other tenants who introduces her to her boyfriend's business partner, a jewellery designer and widower called Arturo Whitman. In the winter of 1953, when she is twenty years old, Boy runs away from her father, and moves from New York to Flax Hill. ![]() The novel was named as one of the best books of 2014 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and BuzzFeed.īoy Novak, a young white girl, is born to an abusive father who works as an exterminator and whom she refers to as the rat catcher. Oyeyemi also cited the Nella Larsen novel Passing as an inspiration. The novel, Oyeyemi's fifth, was a loose retelling of the fairytale Snow White. Boy, Snow, Bird is a 2014 novel by British author Helen Oyeyemi. ![]()
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