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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

โœ Scribed by Oyeyemi, Helen


Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2016
Tongue
en-US
Weight
180 KB
Edition
2
Category
Fiction

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โœฆ Synopsis


"Transcendent." --The New York Times Book Review
" Flawless. . . another masterpiece from an author who seems incapable of writing anything that's less than brilliant.
"** --NPR
From the award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird and Mr. Fox comes an enchanting collection of intertwined stories.**


Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours is cleverly built around the idea of keys, literal and metaphorical. The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret--Oyeyemi's keys not only unlock elements of her characters' lives, they promise further labyrinths on the other side. In "Books and Roses" one special key opens a library, a garden, and clues to at least two lovers' fates. In "Is Your Blood as Red as This?" an unlikely key opens the heart of a student at a puppeteering school. "'Sorry' Doesn't Sweeten Her Tea" involves a "house of locks," where...


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