The Icarus Girl
by:
Helen Oyeyemi (author)
ISBN:
9780747581482 (0747581487)
Publish date: 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 325
Edition language: English
I cannot believe Oyeyemi wrote this when she was 19. I can't wait to check out her other books.
This has a pretty, literary cover and a pretty, literary title and so I thought it would be, at most, part of the Todorovan fantastic, maybe it is real and maybe it is imagined/insanity, which, honestly, I find one of the most boring conceits in all of literature most of the time. But no! There is ...