What is Not Yours is Not Yours
A collection of stories all woven together, Helen Oyeyemi's books continue to surprise me. Her voice at times reminds me of Marquez and Winterson while at the same time is distinctly her own. I breezed through it during our hot days in Panama, transported into a land of puppets and mysteries.
“It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.”