Helen Oyeyemi: Weaving modern fairytales into 1950s America

  • 9 years ago
She wrote her first novel before she left school and secured a book deal as a teenager. Now Helen Oyeyemi’s fourth novel "Boy, Snow, Bird" takes in myth, magic and a multicultural cast of characters. She talks to us about the tricky issue of identity, the appeal of childhood stories and her new-found love for Korean culture.

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