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Location Call # Volume Status
 Sherman Library  PR6115.Y49 A6 2016    AVAILABLE  
Author Oyeyemi, Helen, author.
Title What is not yours is not yours : stories / Helen Oyeyemi.
OCLC 941758750
ISBN 9781594634635
1594634637
Publisher New York : Riverhead Books, 2016.
Description 325 pages ; 21 cm
Short stories.
LC Subject heading/s Locks and keys -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Children's
Subject heading/s		 Libraries -- Fiction.
Gardens -- Fiction.
City and town life -- Fiction.
Puppets -- Fiction.
Books -- Fiction.
Other
Subject heading/s		 FICTION -- Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology.
FICTION -- Magical Realism.
FICTION -- Short Stories (single author)
LC
Genre heading/s		 Short stories, English.
Contents Books and roses -- "Sorry" doesn't sweeten her tea -- Is your blood as red as this? -- Drownings -- Presence -- A brief history of the homely wench society -- Dornicka and the St. Martin's Day goose -- Freddy Barrandov checks ... in? -- If a book is locked there is probably a good reason for that don't you think.
Summary The stories collected here are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another. The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the clocks have stopped; students hone their skills at puppet school, the Homely Wench Society commits a guerrilla book-swap, and lovers exchange books and roses on St Jordi's Day. It is a collection of towering imagination, marked by baroque beauty and a deep sensuousness.
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