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CENTRAL: Central Book Club - Boy, Snow, Bird

The Central Park Book Club meets (almost) every 4th Monday of the month to discuss books across all genres! Join the group and create a space to talk about and enjoy reading!  

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This month, we will be discussing Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi 

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 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. Among them, Boy, Snow, and Bird confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold. 

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