Helen Oyeyemi

Helen Oyeyemi appears in the following:

Helen Oyeyemi's New Fairytale 'Gingerbread'

Monday, May 27, 2019

Rebroadcast: Helen Oyeyemi on her new novel, "Gingerbread". 

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'Gingerbread'

Monday, March 11, 2019

Helen Oyeyemi on "Gingerbread."

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This Is Not a Disney Story: Helen Oyeyemi Takes on Snow White

Thursday, March 05, 2015

The novelist Helen Oyeyemi deconstructs the Snow White story to find the real villain: a mirror that dictates the characters’ identities.  

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Helen Oyeyemi Takes on Snow White

Friday, March 14, 2014

The writer was born in Nigeria; the tale comes from medieval Germany; the setting is a small New England town in the 1950s. Boy, Snow, Bird is Helen Oyeyemi’s fifth novel, and like mo...

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Helen Oyeyemi's Novel Boy, Snow, Bird

Friday, March 07, 2014

Helen Oyeyemi talks about her novel Boy, Snow, Bird. In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking for a new life. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. When Bird has a baby who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white.

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A Memoir About Finding One's Place In The Natural World

Saturday, July 13, 2013

The latest addition to a body of work that includes six novels, a short story collection, and editorship of several folk tale anthologies, I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place is just the right sort of read for those who usually take in non-fiction with a grim reluctance, as if ...

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