Gingerbread (Oyeyemi novel)

Gingerbread
	First edition (US)
Author	Helen Oyeyemi
Language	English
Publisher	Picador (UK); Riverhead Books (US)
Publication place	United Kingdom

Gingerbread is a 2019 novel by Helen Oyeyemi.

Writing and composition

Oyeyemi lives in Prague, and the local tradition of producing gingerbread, known as perník, inspired its inclusion in the book.^[1]

Reception

Eowyn Ivey, in a review for the New York Times Book Review, praised the book as "jarring, funny, surprising, unsettling, disorienting and rewarding."^[2]

References

^ Nudson, Rae (6 March 2019). "Helen Oyeyemi on 'Gingerbread,' Fairy Tales, and What Self-Branding Is Doing to Childhood". Longreads. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
^ Ivey, Eowyn (6 March 2019). "Helen Oyeyemi Dishes Up Magic in Her New Novel, 'Gingerbread'". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 April 2021.

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[1] Nudson, Rae (6 March 2019). "Helen Oyeyemi on 'Gingerbread,' Fairy Tales, and What Self-Branding Is Doing to Childhood". Longreads. Retrieved 19 April 2021.

[2] Ivey, Eowyn (6 March 2019). "Helen Oyeyemi Dishes Up Magic in Her New Novel, 'Gingerbread'". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 April 2021.

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