2021/024: Boy, Snow, Bird -- Helen Oyeyemi

2021/024: Boy, Snow, Bird -- Helen Oyeyemi

Shards of her face emerged through brown bark and greenish shadows. Her left eye was aligned with mine; we raised our left hands at the same time, and hers was bloody. She said: “I don’t know what to do.” [p. 60]

Boy Novak is nineteen years old in 1953, at the opening of Boy, Snow, Bird: raised by her father Frank, a ratcatcher, she never knew her mother.( some spoilers )