![]() ![]() ![]() (A gripping ghost story interwoven with the moving tale of a young girl struggling to find a place in the world, it was an overnight success, and drew attention to Oyeyemi’s own council-estate childhood, as well as her struggles as a teen with depression.) Her new novel, a sophisticated meditation on the nature of authorship, identity, and male-female relations, is a mature elaboration on her slightly obsessive, provocative-yet-playful style. At 26, Oyeyemi has written four acclaimed novels, the first of which, Icarus Girl, she secretly completed-at eighteen!-when she should have been studying for her A-level exams. The term literary wunderkind is bandied about much too freely these days, but if anyone has earned the right to the term, it’s the Nigerian-born English author Helen Oyeyemi. ![]()
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