Though, the ending left me so unsatisfied. And loved the subtle storytelling, the themes of hiding one's true self and secrets, and the reveal that (view spoiler).
I liked the parallels to Snow White (though it's not a re-telling.
I liked the little touches of magical realism. The others, even Arturo, are just peripheral. The only two characters who seem fully fleshed out are Boy and Bird. This makes Snow seem less like a character and more of a mystery - which actually is true of all the other characters too. Despite the title, Snow never becomes a POV narrator - instead, the first part is narrated by Boy, and the second by Bird, and then the third goes back to Boy. I was really intrigued with the different threads weaving through the various stories of Boy, Snow, and Bird. I enjoyed this book, until the very unsatisfying not-an-ending ending. "-"A reimagining of the Snow White story set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s"- … ( more) With breathtaking feats of imagination, Helen Oyeyemi confirms her place as one of the most original and dynamic literary voices of our time. Dazzlingly inventive and powerfully moving, Boy, Snow, Bird is an astonishing and enchanting novel. Among them, Boy, Snow, and Bird confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she'd become, but elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy's daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. 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. Fox, the Snow White fairy tale brilliantly recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity.
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