If I am going to read a book based in a fairy tale, I do appreciate the light touch going on here. The elements of the story are heavy and present, but the fairy tale world created in this one are considerably small in comparison. In addition, I appreciate how the different narrative voices moved us away from the traditional telling of the story and especially gave us half the book in the voice of the “evil” stepmother. In this story, we fist meet Boy, […]
For reasons of my own I take note of the way people act when they’re around mirrors
Boy Snow Bird by Helen Oyeyemi