Gingerbread (Oyeyemi novel)Gingerbread is a 2019 novel by Helen Oyeyemi.Writing and compositionOyeyemi lives in Prague, and the local tradition of producing gingerbread, known as perník, inspired its inclusion in the book.ReceptionEowyn Ivey, in a review for the New York Times Book Review, praised the book as "jarring, funny, surprising, unsettling, disorienting and rewarding."