Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

Is there any relationship so fraught as the one between mothers and daughters? There is so much emotional, cultural, and historical baggage just waiting for the moment when a mother and daughter first set eyes on each other that its no wonder Freud had so much material to work with when he was starting his practice. There are mothers and daughters all over the place in Helen Oyeyemi's magical novel, Boy, Snow, Bird. The relationships are further complicated by race and aesthetics and the legacy of abuse. This is the kind of novel that English majors dream of. It's so full of meaning just waiting to be unpacked, but it's also written so that you could share it with your non-English major friends and—for once—they won't think you mental when you natter on about how much you enjoyed reading it...

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