White is for Witching
by Helen Oyeyemi
In a vast, mysterious house
on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the hole punched
into its heart. Lily is gone and her twins, Miranda and Eliot, and her husband,
the gentle Luc, mourn her absence with unspoken intensity. All is not well with
the house, either, which creaks and grumbles and malignly confuses visitors in
its mazy rooms, forcing winter apples in the garden when the branches should be
bare. Generations of women inhabit its walls. And Miranda, with her new
appetite for chalk and her keen sense for spirits, is more attuned to them than
she is to her brother and father. She is leaving them slowly -
Slipping away from them –
And when one dark night she
vanishes entirely, the survivors are left to tell her story.
Miri I conjure you
This is a spine-tingling tale that has Gothic roots but an utterly
modern sensibility. Told by a quartet of crystalline voices, it is electrifying
in its expression of myth and memory, loss and magic, fear and love.
The Icarus Girl
by Helen Oyeyemi
Jessamy “Jess” Harrison,
age eight, is the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother. Possessed
of an extraordinary imagination, she has a hard time fitting in at school. It
is only when she visits Nigeria for the first time that she makes a friend who
understands her: a ragged little girl named TillyTilly. But soon TillyTilly’s
visits become more disturbing, until Jess realizes she doesn’t actually know
who her friend is at all. Drawing on Nigerian mythology, Helen Oyeyemi presents
a striking variation on the classic literary theme of doubles — both real and
spiritual — in this lyrical and bold debut.
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