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7/8/2020

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Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories, 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 (or, according to many sources, non-existent) land of Harriet Lee's early youth. The world's truest lover of the Lee family gingerbread, however, 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 mother's long-lost friend, it prompts a new telling of Harriet's story. As the book follows the Lees through encounters with jealousy, ambition, family grudges, work, wealth, and real estate, gingerbread seems to be the one thing that reliably holds a constant value. Endlessly surprising and satisfying, written with Helen Oyeyemi's inimitable style and imagination, it is a true feast for the reader.
Oyeyemi's novel White Is For Witching was a 2009 Shirley Jackson Award finalist and won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award. In 2009 Oyeyemi was recognized in Venus Zine's "25 under 25" list. In 2013 she was included in the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list and Boy, Snow, Bird was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2014. What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours won the PEN Open Book Award: for an exceptional book-length work of literature by an author of color published in 2016.
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Reviews & Interviews
Gingerbread Is A Delightfully Spicy Family Fable -- NPR
Helen Oyeyemi Dishes Up Magic in Her New Novel, Gingerbread -- NY Times
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi – a modern fairytale -- The Guardian
Helen Oyeyemi says Gingerbread is not about Hansel and Gretel -- VOX
Helen Oyeyemi on Gingerbread, Fairy Tales, and What Self-Branding Is Doing to Childhood -- Longreads
Helen Oyeyemi Wants to Bewitch You -- The Millions

We're remaining online for our book club meetings and this one is scheduled for Saturday, July 25th at 7:30pm. You can join using this link and discuss the book with us, even if you weren't able to completely finish it or if you didn't like it. You can see the Facebook event & find more information here. Read on!

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