| Description |
308 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"A reimagining of the Snow White story set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s"-- Provided by publisher. |
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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 the birth of Boy's daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white. Now Boy, Snow, and Bird must confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold. |
| Subject |
Fairy tales -- Adaptations.
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Passing (Identity) -- Fiction.
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Stepmothers -- Fiction.
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Massachusetts -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781594631399 (hardback) |
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1594631395 (hardback) |
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