By Helen Oyeyemi
New York: Riverhead Books 2016. 325 pages. Fiction.
What do a flaming tyrant, a young puppeteer who enters the
profession to woo his love interest, a man with a knife in his
chest who calls to say he’ll be late for dinner, a teenage girl with a
celebrity crush which turns to scandal, a woman who sneaks into a library at
night, and a weight loss spa where patients are put into drug-induced comas
have in common? Seemingly nothing, until Helen Oyeyemi gets a hold of them.
For a break from the traditional novel, I picked up this
collection of nine short stories, where each is connected to the next by keys,
doors, secrets, mystery, desire, and a little magic. The stories stands on their
own well, but the book’s tone and themes carry throughout, drawing the reader
in as move forward to see how the stories will connect or relate. Oyeyemi’s
writing is beautiful and imaginative, and draws the reader in with ease. This
was a book I could not put down and I would highly recommend.
RC
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