White is for Witching

Helen Oyeyemi
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White is for Witching

spoltz
8/4/2014
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Extract: I seem to be developing a pattern: Read a book. Love it. Read an earlier book by the same author. Feel nonplussed. This happened with Helen Oyeyemi's "White is for Witching". As with "Mr. Fox", which I loved, Oyeyemi takes a subgenre, this time the haunted house, kneads it with her amazing prose and dark imagination, sprinkles in some magical realism and voila, you've read something you never expected. Unfortunately, when I tasted it, the ingredients were better than the bread...

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