Everything you need to understand or teach Boy Snow Bird by Helen Oyeyemi.
The action of “Boy, Snow, Bird” begins in New York City in the mid-1950’s. Narrator Boy Novak describes both the desperation-triggering circumstances in which she’s raised at the hands of a violently abusive father, and her flight from both the city and her family of origin to Flax Hill, a small conservative town removed from her other life by several miles, several states, and several different moral values and...