"Oyeyemi infuses magic into the lives of contemporary characters." - TIME Oyeyemi's storytelling is without parallel." - BBC.com "An enchanting and beautifully crafted first collection of stories, linked by the recurrence of keys. boasts ambitious stories written masterfully by an adventurous author, and is another example of Oyeyemi's skill at finding inspiration in the smallest and most ephemeral details." - Women in the World, in association with The New York Times "Oyeyemi's fictional world is scintillating and eccentric, an 'implosion of memory, ' as one character puts it." -The New Yorker It's a book that resists comparisons Oyeyemi's talent is as unique as it is formidable." - NPR, Michael Schaub is a lot of things: dreamy, spellbinding, and unlike just about anything you can imagine.
Oyeyemi manages to make the story both realistic and fantastical, and the characters are rendered with grace and compassion. Oyeyemi seems to be incapable of writing anything that's not wholly original. Transcendent." - The New York Times Book Review The deeper one descends into the fabulist warrens of these stories, the more mystery and menace abound, and with each story I had the delightful and rare experience of being utterly surprised. "Oyeyemi so expertly melds the everyday, the fantastic and the eternal, we have to ask if the line between 'real' and 'unreal' is murkier than we imagined-or to what extent a line exists at all. Is a key a gate, a gift, or an invitation? What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours captivates as it explores the many possible answers. Oyeyemi's tales span multiple times and landscapes as they tease boundaries between coexisting realities. And in "If a Book Is Locked There's Probably a Good Reason for That Don't You Think," a key keeps a mystical diary locked (for good reason). "'Sorry' Doesn't Sweeten Her Tea" involves a "house of locks," where doors can be closed only with a key-with surprising, unobservable developments. In "Is Your Blood as Red as This?" an unlikely key opens the heart of a student at a puppeteering school. In "Books and Roses" one special key opens a library, a garden, and clues to at least two lovers' fates. The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret-Oyeyemi's keys not only unlock elements of her characters' lives, they promise further labyrinths on the other side. Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours is cleverly built around the idea of keys, literal and metaphorical. NPRįrom the award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird and Peaces comes an enchanting collection of intertwined stories. another masterpiece from an author who seems incapable of writing anything that's less than brilliant. The New York Times Book Reviewįlawless.
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