Gingerbread is a 2019 novel by Helen Oyeyemi.
Contents
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."