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Oyeyemi, Helen
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Fiction
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2019
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Pan Macmillan
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English
β 175 KB
β¦ LIBER β¦
Gingerbread
β Scribed by Oyeyemi, Helen
- Book ID
- 110431638
- Publisher
- Penguin Canada
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 545 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780143197850
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What is Not Yours is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and inventive novel.
Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's storiesβequal parts wholesome and uncanny; from the tantalizing witch's house in "Hansel and Gretel" to the man-shaped confection who one day decides to run as fast as he canβbeloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe.
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....
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