Not to say that the ending of Boy, Snow, Bird is suddenly and enormously disappointing. It won’t be that you reach the very end and get suddenly, abruptly, enormously disappointed. Usually it’s that the ending isn’t good, but if you’ve read the end before you read the middle, then at least you have a good bit of time to prepare for the ending to not be so good. And I’ll tell you right now that they usually don’t. I hope the parts of the book I haven’t read make it not disappointing. Sometimes I read the end, and I think: Man, that seems disappointing.
And Boy packs up her husband, daughter, and stepdaughter to go “break the spell” the rat-catcher is under. At the end Boy Snow Bird, it is revealed that the rat-catcher, Boy’s father, was actually her mother omg shocking twist, who was a queer artsy college type until she was raped, whereupon she retired to a home for girls and found that the person looking out at her from the mirror was a man, so she started acting like one in her real life.
The end (spoilers in this section only, so skip down to “The whole” if you don’t want to know!): This is actually a good example of a time the benefits of reading the end are objectively evident. There she meets a man called Arturo Whitman, and maybe she falls in love with him, and she tries not to become a wicked stepmother to his beautiful daughter, Snow. The beginning: That’s the first line of Boy Snow Bird, and doesn’t it remind you of how much you’ve missed Helen Oyeyemi? In her newest book, a girl named Boy runs away from her abusive father, a rat-catcher, to a small town called Flax Hill. Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy. Note: I received this ebook from the publisher via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.
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