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Whimsical tale exploring family legacy via gingerbread.

"Gingerbread" is like a confection for the mind, combining the sweetness of a well-crafted narrative with the spices of surreality that Helen Oyeyemi so skillfully blends. If you delight in stories that both comfort and challenge, where everyday life is rendered in magical hues, this book is your ticket to a world where imagination bakes the most extraordinary tales. Open it up and taste the quirky, heartfelt adventures of the Lee family.

  • Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee for Fiction (2020)
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Gingerbread

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ISBN: 9781447299424
Authors: Helen Oyeyemi
Publisher: Picador
Date of Publication: 2020-03-05
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 3.05
(rated by 15107 readers)

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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 stories—equal 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 can—beloved 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 to be 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 Druhástrana, the far-away (and, according to Wikipedia, non-existent) land of Harriet Lee's early youth. In fact, the world's truest lover of the Lee family gingerbread is Harriet's charismatic childhood friend, Gretel Kercheval—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
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Whimsical tale exploring family legacy via gingerbread.

"Gingerbread" is like a confection for the mind, combining the sweetness of a well-crafted narrative with the spices of surreality that Helen Oyeyemi so skillfully blends. If you delight in stories that both comfort and challenge, where everyday life is rendered in magical hues, this book is your ticket to a world where imagination bakes the most extraordinary tales. Open it up and taste the quirky, heartfelt adventures of the Lee family.

  • Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee for Fiction (2020)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.