Opposite House

Name: Opposite House
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ISBN: 9781400078769

ISBN-10: 1400078768

ISBN-13: 9781400078769

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Authors: Helen Oyeyemi

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In a dazzling follow-up toThe Icarus Girl, Helen Oyeyemi explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women and their search for the truth about faith and identity. Maja was five years old when her black Cuban family emigrated from the Caribbean to London. Now, almost twenty years later, Maja is a singer, in love with Aaron, pregnant, and haunted by what she calls “her Cuba.” Growing up in London, she has struggled to negotiate her history and the sense that speaking Spanish or English made her less of a black girl. But she is unable to find herself in the Ewe, Igbo, or Akum of her roots. It seems all that’s left is silence. Meanwhile distance…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/10/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.15" wide x 7.97" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English