Trying to find What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours ? Author : Helen Oyeyemi Publisher : Riverhead Books Total Pages : 325 From the award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird and Mr. Fox comes an enchanting collection of intertwined stories. Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours is cleverly built around the idea of keys, literal and metaphorical. The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret--Oyeyemis keys not only unlock elements of her characters lives, they promise further labyrinths on the other side. In "Books and Roses" one special key opens a library, a garden, and clues to at least two lovers fates. In "Is Your Blood as Red as This?" an unlikely key opens the heart of a student at a puppeteering school. "Sorry Doesnt Sweeten Her Tea" involves a "house of locks," where doors can be closed only with a key--with...
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