![]() ![]() But, like a good mirror, I won’t reveal everything here. In the end, one of the novel’s biggest transformations takes place as a result of coming face-to-face with one’s reflection. It’s not just Boy, Snow, and Bird who, in some way, discover themselves by doubting their mirrors. “So what-she can’t prove it isn’t true,” he figures. But Cinderella just sweeping up all those ashes every day and never putting them into her stepmother’s food or anything-is that true?” To a young girl, that is the most implausible part of the story, and her father can’t see the harm in telling her yes. “Not the fairy godmother stuff and her dress turning back to rags at midnight-I know that’s true. She never expressed approval or disapproval, but one night she asked if the story was true. Bird, Arturo explains, used to love hearing the Cinderella story before bed. Over and over again we read the fairy tales that the characters tell each other, and each time Oyeyemi has them doubt the veracity, and sometimes the validity, of one version of a story over another. ![]() But then Oyeyemi is less interested in deceiving us than she is in letting us know we’re being deceived. ![]()
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