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Jun 01, 2016rebmartin31 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Oyeyemi does an amazing job in this book of somehow making you share Boy's dislike and distrust of Snow. I don't know how she does it, because by all accounts it shouldn't make sense. Boy was quite cruel in sending Snow away, and Snow doesn't seem like such a bad person. I think Boy just feels that Snow is a little fake, and wants to separate Snow from the spoiling influence of the grandmothers. In any event, it is pure witchcraft. The prose is beautiful, one of the most astonishing pieces of prose writing I've come across recently. I don't know if I 100% appreciated some of the more supernatural/fairytale elements of the story, and I had issues with some of the characters, and, yes, the ending is a bit abrupt, but I loved Oyeyemi's writing so much that it doesn't matter.