{"product_id":"boy-snow-bird","title":"Boy, Snow, Bird","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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 lightskinned  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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDazzlingly 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Helen Oyeyemi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46669283164357,"sku":"9780143187431","price":10.25,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780143187431.jpg?v=1786026332","url":"https:\/\/www.bloominsallysusedbooks.com\/products\/boy-snow-bird","provider":"Bloomin’ Sally’s Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}