The House of Discarded Dreams
Trying to escape her embarrassing immigrant mother, Vimbai moves into a dilapidated house in the dunes... and discovers that one of her new roommates has a pocket universe instead of hair, there's a psychic energy baby living in the telephone wires, and her dead Zimbabwean grandmother is doing...
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Trying to escape her embarrassing immigrant mother, Vimbai moves into a dilapidated house in the dunes... and discovers that one of her new roommates has a pocket universe instead of hair, there's a psychic energy baby living in the telephone wires, and her dead Zimbabwean grandmother is doing dishes in the kitchen. When the house gets lost at sea and creatures of African urban legends all but take it over, Vimbai turns to horseshoe crabs in the ocean to ask for their help in getting home to New Jersey.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781607012283 (1607012286)
ASIN: 1607012286
Publish date: 2010-11-16
Publisher: Prime Books
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Urban Fantasy,
Cultural,
Africa,
Speculative Fiction,
Steampunk,
Magical Realism,
Glbt,
Fiction
THE HOUSE OF DISCARDED DREAMS, BY EKATERINA SEDIAThis one was recommended to me by a friend who is very into Magical Realism. I'm not sure what that means, to be honest, but I guess it would be something like Urban Fantasy with a blasé outlook. Weird shit happens and everybody is really cool about i...
I expected to like this far more than I did. Maybe my expectations made me like it a little less? Not sure. I preferred both 'Alchemy of Stone' and 'Secret History of Moscow.'In 'House of Discarded Dreams,' teenager Vimbai is seeking her independence (and, especially, some distance from her overbear...
A coming-of-age story of a daughter of Zimbabwean immigrants & her friends with magical realism. I like the dreamlike prose, the interplay between African & American esp. African American cultures, & the occasional social commentaries on culture, race & colonialism (which is imho rare in gerne ficti...
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