When Perdita’s quest for the truth of her origins lands her in trouble, it’s up to Harriet to spill all of the family secrets. whose teenage daughter Perdita has more than a few questions about her roots. Gingerbread has always been a guiding force in the life of Harriet Lee, an immigrant to the U.K.
Gingerbread is Oyeyemi’s latest, an audacious take on the food that housed a witch and nourished Hansel and Gretel. She twists familiar stories in entirely unpredictable ways, and her books never end up where you thought they would when you started. Helen Oyeyemi is a master of reinventing tropes from traditional fairy tales to say something entirely new about the world we live in.
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