Her voice is utterly unique, and though there are slight hitches in her work, the hitches are so slight, and the work so mindblowing, that any troubles in her books are completely forgivable. Right now, she's doing work that writers twice her age only wish they could do. I think Oyeyemi is going to win gigantic prizes. (And moan, I think she wrote this one when she was 23.) I'd possibly die of jealousy, except that she's completely amazing, and you know what? It's in the world's interest to have writers this good working in it.
It kills me, full on kills me that she is writing like this and she's only, dear god, 26 years old. Girl has a way with words, a way with weird, and a way with witching. This is the first book I'd read by Helen Oyeyemi, and I instantly had to purchase everything else.
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