Icarus Girl
A sensation among readers around the world, The Icarus Girl is the beautifully written story of eight-year-old Jessamy “Jess” Harrison. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of a powerful imagination, Jess spends hours writing, reading, or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard. As the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother, Jess just can't shake off the feeling of being alone wherever she goes, and other kids are wary of her terrified fits of screaming. When her parents take her to Nigeria to visit her mother's family, she encounters Titiola, or TillyTilly, a ragged little girl her own age. To Jess, it seems that, at last, she has found someone who will understand her. But gradually TillyTilly's…
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May 9, 2006Helen 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