Helen Oyeyemi

Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

Boy, Snow, Bird (Mar-2014)

Fairytale Retellings: Hansel and Gretel

Gingerbread (Mar-2019)

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  The Icarus Girl
  

  • Apr-2006
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  Jessamy “Jess” Harrison, age eight, is the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother. Possessed of an extraordinary imagination, she has a hard time fitting in at school. It is only when she visits Nigeria for the first time that she makes...

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  The Opposite House
  

  • May-2007
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  'Rich and witty ... it confirms Helen Oyeyemi as a true original' Ali Smith
  'Powerful ... wonderfully unsettling ... Oyeyemi's raw style is great' Time Out
  'Beautiful ... this is about the difficulties of knowing who...

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  White Is for Witching
  

  • Jul-2009
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  "Miranda is at home--homesick, home sick ..." As a child, Miranda Silver developed pica, a rare eating disorder that causes its victims to consume nonedible substances. The death of her mother when Miranda is sixteen exacerbates her condition; not...

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  Mr. Fox
  

  • Oct-2011
  • / Literary
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  From a prizewinning young writer, a brilliant and inventive story of love, lies, and inspiration. Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, the celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself fro...

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  Boy, Snow, Bird
  

  • Mar-2014
  • / Fantasy
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  Fairytale Retellings: Snow White
  

  From the prizewinning author of Mr. Fox, the Snow White fairy tale brilliantly recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity. In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believe...

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  Juniper's Whitening
  

  • Jun-2014
  • / General Fiction
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  What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
  

  • Mar-2016
  • / Fantasy
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  From the award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird and Mr. Fox comes an enchanting collection of intertwined stories. Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours is cleverly built around the idea of keys, literal an...

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  Gingerbread
  

  • Mar-2019
  • / Literary
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  Fairytale Retellings: Hansel and Gretel
  

  The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and inventive novel. Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories -- equal parts wholesome ...

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  Peaces
  

  • Apr-2021
  • / Literary
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  “Enchanting . . . the most surprising, confounding, and oddly insightful couple’s trip in recent literary history.” -- Entertainment Weekly The prize-winning, bestselling author of Gingerbread; Boy, Snow, Bird; and What Is Not Yours Is Not You...

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  Parasol Against the Axe
  

  • Mar-2024
  • / Literary
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  ONE OF BIBLIOLIFESTYLE’S “BEST LITERARY FICTION OF 2024”"A shape-shifting novel about the power of stories…Helen Oyeyemi is a literary pied piper -- her voice is the kind that readers gamely follow into the most bewildering and unnerving of...

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  A New New Me
  

  • Sep-2025
  • / Literary
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  From the award-winning, bestselling “literary pied piper” (The New York Times Book Review) who brought us Boy, Snow, Bird comes an account of seven particularly busy days in an already hectic inner lifeNew Day, New You! Kinga is a woman ...

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Award-Winning Books by Helen Oyeyemi

Mr. Fox
2012 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award -- Fiction
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
2017 PEN Literary Award -- Open Book