Books by Helen Oyeyemi
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review 1: Well, I'm just really not sure what to make of this book. I got it in my quarterly book box, which is always exciting to open..."what's going to be in there" you wonder as you open it up. This was a highly imaginative book with some beautiful sentences in it. Mostly though I was ...
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review 1: Such a strange book, as I have come to expect from Oyeyemi who, to me, is the high priestess of dark, modern fairy tales. Oyeyemi plays around with a few experimental writing conventions and structures, but it somehow lacks pretension and...works, unexpectedly. Part horror (I cou...
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review 1: Um, I didn't get it exactly. I mean, I did get it, sort of but I feel like I was tricked a little. I definitely thought this was going to be more fantasy/fairy tale as an updated version of Snow White, but it wasn't. It was a very topical book - about race relations, sexual orien...