From everything I hear, White is for Witching is a good place to start, as long as you don’t mind its being better than her others. I’m just sad I only have one more book of hers to read. Hopefully she will write another soon as she is young and energetic.

It’s times like these I’m really glad for the blogosphere, because outside of book blogs, I’ve not even heard Helen Oyeyemi’s name. SO glad I found her.

I hope you can get hold of them! Like I said, The Opposite House was better, and I have heard so many great things about White is for Witching (love that title too) that I am expecting it to be better yet.

I know! I looked her up to see if she was from Nigeria like Jess or Cuba like Maja, and I couldn’t believe how young she was. Good for her.

I think you’d still enjoy it if you didn’t read it first, as long as you’re bearing in mind that it’s a first novel. When I discovered one of my now-favorite authors, Martin Millar, I read his best book first, and then went on to the rather less good ones. And despite its flaws, I still really enjoyed reading his first novel.

Do! I just reviewed it – such lovely writing.

I love it too. I’m wondering if I will find such a drastic improvement between The Opposite House and White is for Witching, or if she’ll be plateau-ing now. Of course White is for Witching is checked out of my library, so I’ll have to wait and see.

I mentioned the twins thing because my mum always says she was fascinated by these twins that were in her kindergarten class. “They looked exactly the same!” she says. “But they were different people!” I don’t know – there were twins in my elementary school class, and I was unmoved by the same-face-different-brain thing. (Though, yeah, Julia and Valentina were creepy.)