TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oyeyemi,Helen
TI  - Gingerbread
SN  - 9781594634659
AV  - PR6115.Y49 G56 2019
U1  - 823/.92 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Riverhead Books
KW  - Family-owned business enterprises
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Gingerbread
KW  - Fantasy fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - "Perdita Lee may appear to be your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing, they share a gold-painted, seventh-floor walk-up apartment with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there's the gingerbread they make. Londoners may find themselves able to take or leave it, but it's very popular in Druh�astrana, the far-away (or, according to many sources, non-existent) land of Harriet Lee's early youth. The world's truest lover of the Lee family gingerbread, however, is Harriet's charismatic childhood friend Gretel Kercheval--a figure who seems to have had a hand in everything (good or bad) that has happened to Harriet since they met. Decades later, when teenaged Perdita sets out to find her mother's long-lost friend, it prompts a new telling of Harriet's story."--
ER  -