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Oyeyemi, Helen.
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Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Fairy tales -- Fiction.
Gingerbread -- Fiction.
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Oyeyemi, Helen.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Fairy tales -- Fiction.
Gingerbread -- Fiction.
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Gingerbread : a novel / Helen Oyeyemi.
by
Oyeyemi, Helen.
Hamish Hamilton, 2019.
Call #:
FICTION
OYE
Subjects
Mothers and daughters --
Fiction
.
Fairy tales --
Fiction
.
Gingerbread --
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780143197850 (trade pbk.)
Description:
258 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"Perdita Lee may appear your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing, they share a gold-painted, seventh-floor walk-up apartment with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there's the gingerbread they make. Londoners may find themselves able to take or leave it, but it's very popular in Druhastrana, the far away (or, according to many sources, non-existent) land of Harriet Lee's early youth. The world's truest lover of the Lee family gingerbread, however, is Harriet's charismatic childhood friend Gretel--a figure who seems to have had a hand in everything (good or bad) that has happened to Harriet since they met. Decades later, when teenaged Perdita sets out to find her mother's long lost friend, it prompts a new telling of Harriet's story. As the book follows the Lees through encounters with jealousy, ambition, family grudges, work, wealth, and real estate, gingerbread seems to be the one thing that reliably holds a constant value."--Publisher.
Genre:
Black
fiction
.
Magic realism (Literature)
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1
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