Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel

"Fairy tales get reworked and re-imagined all the time, but the treatment Snow White gets in Helen Oyeyemi’s novel Boy, Snow, Bird is more like a deconstruction of the tale than a mere retelling. Boy is a white woman who realizes her husband is an African-American who has been passing for white only after she gives birth to a black child, Bird. “Passing” in this way is a truly magical ability, but it comes at a price. To explain would mean spoilers, and there are some fantastic yet plausible revelations in this story you’ll want to discover on your own."