Gingerbread (Oyeyemi novel)

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.

Reception

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

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