![]() Despite its fantastic trappings, the novel is deeply concerned with the instability of family and with the ways in which family can be defined, revoked, and discovered. ![]() Oyeyemi’s women struggle to preserve their families, which tend to grow and diminish with informal adoptions, abandonments, and betrayals. Gingerbread is essentially a family saga in the form of two interconnected mother-daughter stories, in which the women repeatedly flee from constraining institutions, whether in the form of a farmstead, a factory, or a benefactor’s family mansion. Oyeyemi has always been fascinated with folklore, and the novel subtly works elements of the fairy tale into modern British life. ![]() In her seventh book, Gingerbread, the British novelist Helen Oyeyemi delivers a characteristically beguiling origin story that follows the fortunes of three generations in the Lee family. ![]()
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