Description: Praise for What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours : "Summarizing Oyeyemi is like trying to tell a dream. . .Casual and accessible at the sentence level, [these stories] are not so much experimental as deeply comfortable with the pre-narrative and proto-narrative impulses at the heart of storytelling." -- The Chicago Tribune "Magical and show stopping." -- Elle.com "An enchanting and beautifully crafted first collection of stories, linked by the recurrence of keys...Oyeyemi''s storytelling is without parallel." -BBC.com "In this collection of short stories, there are many keys that unlock many things. . . What links them all? You''ll want to open and see." -- Cosmopolitan "These modern fairy tales from award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi...will unlock your imagination with stories of love, loss, and. . .keys. . .magical, feverish, spooky, and delightful." --Marie Claire "Helen Oyeyemi is a literary genius, and it shows in this fantastic collection of short stories. . .With characters that will welcome you, push you, and surprise you, Oyeyemi''s writing takes you past your expectations." -- Bustle "A downright addictive read."-- Nylon "Interestingly, it may well be Oyeyemi''s first collection of short fiction, over and above her revered novels, that pushes her into the highest reaches of literary reputation." -Flavorwire "On the page [Oyeyemi] roars. . . Oyeyemi leaves us spellbound and begging for more of her ingenious and utterly addictive prose." -- Essence "Stunning. . . Highly imaginative and enchanting. . . This collection is Oyeyemi at her best."-- Buzzfeed, Included in "Most Exciting Books Coming in 2016" "Enchanting." --BookRiot "These nine casually interlocking stories. . .overflow with the cerebral humor and fantastical plots that readers have come to expect from Oyeyemi." --Kirkus (starred) "Page after page of macabre wit and beautiful, lingering imagery. This is a book where a busking viszla and ironic prison selfies happily co-exist. . .If these stories are mazes, they''re ones where readers can be all too happy to find themselves lost." -Books and Whatnot Praise for Boy, Snow, Bird : "Gloriously unsettling . . . The greatest joy of reading Oyeyemi will always be style: jagged and capricious at moments, lush and rippled at others, always singular, like the voice-over of a fever dream." -- The New York Times Book Review "Superbly inventive . . . examines the thorniness of race and the poisonous ways in which vanity and envy can permeate and distort perception." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "By transforming ''Snow White'' into a tale that hinges on race and cultural ideas about beauty . . . Oyeyemi finds a new, raw power in the classic. In her hands, the story is about secrets and lies, mothers and daughters, lost sisters and the impossibility of seeing oneself or being seen in a brutally racist world. . . . [Oyeyemi] elegantly and inventively turns a classic fairy tale inside out." -- Los Angeles Times "The outline of Oyeyemi''s remarkable career glimmers with pixie dust. . . . The atmosphere of fantasy lingers over these pages like some intoxicating incense." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post Praise for Mr. Fox : "Oyeyemi has an eye for the gently perverse, the odd detail that turns the ordinary marvelously, frighteningly strange." -- The Boston Globe "Startling, beautiful . . . [ Mr. Fox ] should not be ignored." -- Chicago Sun-Times

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