What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Finalist for PEN Open Book Award
From the award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird and Mr. Fox comes an enchanting and thought-provoking 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. "'Sorry' Doesn't Sweeten Her Tea" involves a "house of locks," where doors can be closed only with a key—with surprising, unobservable…
$21.00
March 8, 2016
Helen Oyeyemi is the author of seven novels, including Peaces, Gingerbread, and Boy, Snow, Bird, and of the story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. Winner of the PEN Open Book and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Oyeyemi was named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists.
A New New Me
Helen Oyeyemi
Parasol Against the Axe
Helen Oyeyemi
Peaces
Helen Oyeyemi
Gingerbread
Helen Oyeyemi
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Helen Oyeyemi
Boy, Snow, Bird
Helen Oyeyemi
Mr. Fox
Helen Oyeyemi
White is for Witching
Helen Oyeyemi
The Opposite House
Helen Oyeyemi
Icarus Girl
Helen Oyeyemi
Heavenly Bodies
Imani Erriu
A Sweet Sting of Salt
Rose Sutherland
Cold
Drew Hayden Taylor
The Centaur's Wife
Amanda Leduc
Bunny
Mona Awad
Gun Island
Amitav Ghosh
Gingerbread
Helen Oyeyemi
House of Names
Colm Tóibín
White as Milk, Red as Blood
Franz Xaver von Schoenwerth Willow Dawson, illustrator, and Shelley Tanaka, translator
The Once & Future King
T. H. White
Boy, Snow, Bird
Helen Oyeyemi
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Brothers Grimm
The Hungry Ghosts
Shyam Selvadurai
Hamlet's Twin
Hubert Aquin