What is Not Yours is Not Yours

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. In “Books and Roses” one special key opens a library, a garden, and clues to at least two lovers’ fates. In “Is Your Blood as Red as This?” an unlikely key opens the heart of a ...

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marya_tokovaya24 февраля 2018 г.
It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.
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_Pablo_2 октября 2021 г.
How will I know when I've grown up? When I started using words I didn't really know the meaning of, she said. I said I did that already, and she said yes, but I worried about it and grown-ups didn't.

So then there's this trepidation that you are going to suddenly find yourself having a conversation that turns you into a grown-up, a conversation that stops you being able to see things and people that they are actually there.
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