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The Icarus Girl :
Helen Oyeyemi
Poetic and powerful, this is a book of inner strength, an inseparable
bond, mischievous spirits, Nigeria and other worlds. Other worlds
only a twin can hold the key to. Jessamy
Harrison is just a child-a queer child to otherwise normal
children. While her classmates (none of them her friends) play
in the playground, Jessamy reads Shakespeare.
Born to an English father and a Nigerian
mother, she’s stuck in a world she doesn’t
belong. Until her first holiday to Nigeria. There, she meets
her
first best friend, Titiola (Tilly
Tilly). Tilly Tilly is fun- everything
Jessamy wants to be and she soon becomes attached to her. But
there are unanswered questions and soon Jessamy
discovered her best friend is not all she’s made out to
be.
Brief : Absolutely
magic, you can’t help but feel a strange truth in the novel.
It marks the coming of its author (a nigerian herself) Helen
Oyeyemi, who wrote the book while she was still studying
in school. Bloomsbury, Rs. 435.
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