and the novel ends with Boy, Snow, Bird, and a family friend driving to New York with hopes of “waking up” the woman inside of him.
Ack, what.
I understand how you could get gender-passing in a novel about race-passing, especially a novel based on a fairy tale about destructive step/mothers and daughters, but I would still have felt very badly bitten by that reveal if I had encountered it in situ. Honestly I'm not thrilled in summary. [edit] More significantly, I managed to forget this twist having been told about it by another friend's review five years ago, which suggests that I really did not want to deal with this book.
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Date: 2019-07-10 07:08 pm (UTC)Ack, what.
I understand how you could get gender-passing in a novel about race-passing, especially a novel based on a fairy tale about destructive step/mothers and daughters, but I would still have felt very badly bitten by that reveal if I had encountered it in situ. Honestly I'm not thrilled in summary. [edit] More significantly, I managed to forget this twist having been told about it by another friend's review five years ago, which suggests that I really did not want to deal with this book.