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What is Not Yours is Not Yours. by. Helen Oyeyemi (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · 12, ratings · 1, reviews. 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. In “Books and Roses” one special key opens a library, a garden, and clues to at least two lovers’ /5. Helen Oyeyemi is the author of the story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours along with five novels—most recently Boy, Snow, Bird, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She received a Somerset Maugham Award and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award/5(). 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—Oyeyemi’s keys not only unlock elements of her characters’ lives, they promise further labyrinths on the other side/5().

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WHAT IS NOT YOURS IS NOT YOURS. Stories. By Helen Oyeyemi. pp. Riverhead Books. $ Angela Carter, in a letter to Robert Coover, once wrote: “I really do believe that a fiction absolutely. Oyeyemi’s tales span multiple times and landscapes as they tease boundaries between coexisting realities. 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. What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi – short stories from a rare talent. Oyeyemi struggles against the confines of the short story in pieces that range from beautiful, simple fables.