Tag: I feel like Helen Oyeyemi is too close to my age to have three books published and be such a nauseatingly gifted writer

You may have heard of Helen Oyeyemi’s most recent book, White is for Witching, as it seems to have begun to make its way round the blogosphere.  But it is all checked out at my library.  I decided to make a virtue of necessity and read Oyeyemi’s three books in the order she wrote them, starting with The Icarus Girl which, I discovered, she wrote before she was twenty and published when she was twenty-two. Jessamy Harrison is a lonely little girl trying to find her place.  Daughter of a Nigerian mother and a British father, she is never sure…