The Nigerian-born author offers a challenging, mind-bending exploration of class and female power.
window.havePowaBoot=true; By Ron Charles Ron Charles Critic, Book World Email Bio Follow Critic, Book World February 26 at 9:35 AM Someone must have given Helen Oyeyemi a handful of magic beans when she was born in Nigeria because she’s been planting them ever since. This fantastical writer, who completed her first, acclaimed novel at the age of 18, sows her modern-day stories in the fertile ground of ancient myths and fables.
The narrator explains that Harriet has “the kind of past that makes the present dubious. Talking or thinking about ‘there’ lends ‘here’ a hallucinatory quality that she could frankly do without. Pull the thread too hard and both skeins unravel simultaneously.” Get ready for some heady tangles.
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