read for Popsugar 2017 challenge: a book set in two different time periods

Helen Oyeyemi's prose is really gorgeous. This woman knows how to string a sentence together. The ending came so fast and out of nowhere, and I was a bit unsatisfied, but I know there's a lot I'll spend mulling over.

Two particular moments that really struck me: how no one but Boy recognizes Bird's costume. Alice in Wonderland is such an iconic costume, but for it to be unrecognizable due to Bird's skin color hit me hard. I also recently went through a hashtag of black cosplayers on twitter, and I hope these are biases we're moving away from. Secondly, the mention of Emmett Till given how it has come out that the white woman made up the story of the whistling. I know that scene strikes hard, but it strikes even harder knowing what we do now.