I think this book is absolutely beautiful. This book answered questions I was not even aware I was asking. What we call beautiful, what we feel we need to be, the ideas we instill in our children without knowing it and the sorrows and dangers of a big misunderstanding and the perpetuation of this misunderstanding. Extraordinarily well written, "Boy, Snow, Bird" is a book that Toni Morrison and Shirley Jackson could have been summoned to help write. But I think that takes away from Helen Oyeyemi's raw talent. A talented an powerful novelist. I plan on reading "White is for Witching" next.