What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Helen Oyeyemi
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Helen Oyeyemi
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

Author: Helen Oyeyemi

Narrator: Bahni Turpin, Ann Marie Gideon, Piter Marek

Unabridged: 7 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/08/2016


Synopsis

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). Oyeyemi's creative vision and storytelling are effervescent, wise, and insightful, and her tales span multiple times and landscapes as they tease boundaries between coexisting realities. Is a key a gate, a gift, or an invitation? What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours captivates as it explores the many possible answers.

About Helen Oyeyemi

Helen Oyeyemi was
born in Nigeria and raised in London. She is the author of The Icarus Girl, which was completed before her nineteenth
birthday, The Opposite House, which
was a nominee for the 2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and White Is for Witching, which won the
2010 Somerset Maugham Award.


Reviews

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on October 25, 2022

Sometimes you open a book and such magic and wonder floods out of the pages, sweeping you up in a current as it washes you from your daily life to blissfully drown in its words. Helen Oyeyemi’s short story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours is one of those books and reading it is quite possib......more

Goodreads review by Lala on April 01, 2019

Some stories were great. Some, confusing.......more