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What is not yours is not yours : stories
Title:
What is not yours is not yours : stories
Author:
Oyeyemi, Helen, author.
ISBN:
9781594634635
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Uniform Title:
Short stories. Selections
Publication Information:
New York : Riverhead Books, [2016]
Physical Description:
325 pages ; 21 cm
Abstract:
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 doors can be closed only with a key with surprising, unobservable developments. And in If a Book Is Locked There s Probably a Good Reason for That Don't You Think, a key keeps a mystical diary locked (for good reason).
Document ID:
SD_ILS:2226922
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