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This could have been a really wonderful collection of weird and oddly wonderful short stories. Instead, as a novel it's a sort of confusing, jumbled mix of delightful moments, weird dream-like snippets, and baffling plot turns that just don't tie together very well.
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I've fallen hard for Helen Oyeyemi, she's climbing my all time favorite authors list faster and faster. This is a book I already know I'm going to read 3-4 more times to fully absorb. Its like one of those time-travel movies you have to rewatch and discuss endlessly.
Almost more of a collection of short stories on a theme, this book is effortlessly brillant. When I read Boy Snow Bird, I marveled at the way that Oyeyemi is a contemporary British author able to write small town New England in the ...more
Almost more of a collection of short stories on a theme, this book is effortlessly brillant. When I read Boy Snow Bird, I marveled at the way that Oyeyemi is a contemporary British author able to write small town New England in the ...more
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