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Title: Boy, Snow, Bird

Author: Helen Oyeyemi

Narrator: Barbara Barnes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-04-14

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Boy: Novak turns 20 and takes a bus from New York to the end of the line, Flax Hill, Massachusetts. Here she finds Snow, a mild-mannered and deeply cherished girl. Snow displays a certain inscrutability that's simply harmless, until Boy gives birth to Snow's sister, Bird. When Bird is born Boy is forced to re-evaluate the image Snow's family have presented to her, and Boy, Snow, and Bird are broken apart.

Critic Reviews:

"The fifth novel from award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, Boy, Snow, Bird is a deeply moving novel about an unbreakable bond."

"A spellbinding, wholly original look at families and the secrets they keep An absolutely amazing and absorbing read" (Marie Claire)

"Gloriously unsettling it's clearly the book she's been waiting for the greatest joy of reading Oyeyemi will always be style: jagged and capricious at moments, lush and rippled at others, always singular, like the voice-over of a fever dream." (New York Times)

Members Reviews:

Beautifully written with poignant issues of color-race as well as ...

Beautifully written with poignant issues of color-race as well as blended family with sibling concerns. A powerful novel that I thoroughly enjoyed.

Unusual names with an Interesting Twist

Strong writing. I plan to reread this book. A couple of the characters were challenging to remember as they were spread over time. But that was just the writer's style. It was interesting that my assumptions about Boy's feelings and interaction with Snow was inaccurate. I misread the cues. Maybe that is what the writer intended. This is mostly a story about what happens when a child lives with abuse and rejection, how she makes adult choices and how those choices effect others. We're all familiar with examples the way abuse breeds abuse. But some survivors manage to subdue their anger and resentment just below the surface and leave those around them wondering what's at the root of that person's behavior. All of this goes on with a backdrop of issues around racial ambiguity. The main story could have progressed in much the same way even without the black family "passing" as white angle. And It felt as if nobody cared except the family members when the bloodlines where exposed for the town to see. All in all, the story was enjoyable. I would recommend it.

I have become a fan of Helen Oyeyemi! This ...

I have become a fan of Helen Oyeyemi! This is my second book and I'm looking forward to more.

Some of everything

This book just about has it all. Everything wrapped up in one tight little novel. Itâs such a joy to read that itâs quite sad when you know itâs getting near the end. Itâs one of those books you want, try to savor, read slowly, but you just canât. Itâs too good.

Book

Great book and addresses a lot of issues. Great for a book club.