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Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, what is not yours is not yours is cleverly built around the idea of keys, literal and metaphorical. Helen oyeyemi is the author of five novels, most recently white is for witching, which won a 2010 somerset maugham award, mr. Boy, snow, bird, by helen oyeyemi the new york times. Helen oyeyemi has fully transformed from a literary prodigy. Boy, snow, bird, uses fairytales to illuminate the rather unfairytaleish subject of race in precivil rights america, though calling it as.
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