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White Is For Witching (2009)

by Helen Oyeyemi(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0330458140 (ISBN13: 9780330458146)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Picador USA

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 couldn't help but think of Shirley Jackson), part twisted coming-of-age novel, with a subtle commentary on racial politics. Honestly, I'd read anything Oyeyemi writes. Her novels are just too oddly sharp to pass up.
review 2: I am left with a vaguely cold feeling at the end of this book. it's a ghost story, but only in the way that hereditary mental illness moves through the story, unseen yet known. the prose is strikingly pretty in places, and heartbreakingly cold in others. this is not a... more book I would recommend to someone battling depression. but anyone who is on the other side of a fight will understand the aching this book evokes. it was hard, and beautiful and I don't know that I will ever be able to read it again without crying. less

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