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HELEN OYEYEMI was born in Nigeria in 1984 and raised in London. She wrote her widely acclaimed first novel, The Icarus Girl, before her nineteenth birthday; she graduated from Cambridge University in 2006. Her second novel, The Opposite House, was a nominee for the 2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. White is for Witching is her third novel.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $14.95
Jessamy “Jess” Harrison, age eight, is the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother. Possessed of an extraordinary imagination, she has a hard time fitting in at school. It is only when she visits Nigeria for the first time that she makes a friend who understands her: a ragged... Read more >
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Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $25.00
“Miranda is at home—homesick, home sick ...”
As a child, Miranda Silver developed pica, a rare eating disorder that causes its victims to consume nonedible substances. The death of her mother when Miranda is sixteen exacerbates her condition; nothing, however, satisfies a strange hunger passed down through the women in her family...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $13.95
Lyrical and intensely moving, The Opposite House explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women.
Growing up in London, Maja, a singer, always struggled to negotiate her Afro-Cuban background with her physical home. Yemaya is a Santeria emissary who lives in a mysterious... Read more >
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Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
“The Icarus Girl is an astonishing achievement.” —Sunday Telegraph (London)
Jessamy “Jess” Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of an extraordinary and powerful imagination, she spends hours writing haiku, reading Shakespeare, or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard. As the child of an English father and... Read more >
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Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $13.95
In a dazzling follow-up to The Icarus Girl, Helen Oyeyemi explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women and their search for the truth about faith and identity.
Maja was five years old when her black Cuban family emigrated from the Caribbean to... Read more >
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Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $25.00
“Miranda is at home—homesick, home sick ...”
As a child, Miranda Silver developed pica, a rare eating disorder that causes its victims to consume nonedible substances. The death of her mother when Miranda is sixteen exacerbates her condition; nothing, however, satisfies a strange hunger passed down through the women in her family... Read more >
