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From the award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird and Mr. Fox comes an enchanting collection of intertwined stories. 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 student at a puppeteering school. "'Sorry' Doesn't Sweeten Her Tea" involves a "house of locks", where doors can be closed only with a key - with surprising unobservable developments. And in "If a Book Is Locked There's Probably a Good Reason for That Don't You Think", a key keeps a mystical diary locked (for good reason).
Oyeyemi's creative vision and storytelling are effervescent, wise, and insightful, and her 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.
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mindblowingly exquisite!!!
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De: Nalo Hopkinson
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The Icarus Girl: A Novel
- De: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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Jessamy "Jess" Harrison is an eight year old caught between two worlds. Born to a British father and a Nigerian mother, she has forever felt like she doesn't belong. Jessamy is precocious but has difficulty getting along in school; she throws tantrums seemingly at random and makes life a challenge for her parents. Believing that a change might be the perfect antidote to Jess's troubles, her parents whisk her off to Nigeria to visit relatives. But Jessamy's plight is only beginning....
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- De AnonUser10 en 11-30-11
De: Helen Oyeyemi
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I Always Knew
- A Memoir
- De: Barbara Chase-Riboud
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 23 h y 10 m
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I Always Knew is an intimate and vivid portrait of Chase-Riboud’s life as told through the letters she wrote to her mother, Vivian Mae, between 1957 and 1991. In candid detail, Chase-Riboud tells her mother about her life in Europe, her work as an artist, her romances, and her journeys around the world, from Western and Eastern Europe to the Middle East, Africa, the Soviet Union, China, and Mongolia.
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Captivating!
- De Jackie en 03-29-23
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Terminal Boredom
- Stories
- De: Izumi Suzuki
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay
- Duración: 5 h y 53 m
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At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina. In these darkly playful and punky stories, the fantastical elements are always earthed by the universal pettiness of strife between the sexes, and the gritty reality of life on the lower rungs, whatever planet that ladder might be on.
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Amazing SF From a Giant
- De JD en 06-28-23
De: Izumi Suzuki
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How to Be an American Housewife
- A Novel
- De: Margaret Dilloway
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington, Emily Durante
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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How to Be an American Housewife is a novel about mothers and daughters and the pull of tradition. It tells the story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who married an American GI, and her grown daughter, Sue, a divorced mother whose life as an American housewife hasn't been what she'd expected. When illness prevents Shoko from traveling to Japan, she asks Sue to go in her place. The trip reveals family secrets that change their lives in dramatic and unforeseen ways.
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big disappointment
- De Kirsten en 04-12-12
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Finding Soul on the Path of Orisa
- A West African Spiritual Tradition
- De: Tobe Melora Correal
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
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In the realm of African spiritual pathways, no tradition is so widely embraced and practiced as the West African religion Orisa. Awakened by her own spiritual journey, Tobe Melora Correal, an initiated priestess in the Yoruba-Lukumi branch of Orisa, guides us along this blessed road. Finding Soul on the Path of Orisa provides a fresh look at these ancient teachings and emphasizes introspection and inner work over the outward manifestations of Orisa's practices.
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very informative, it was a great listen.
- De Tamara en 06-11-19
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'Til the Well Runs Dry
- De: Lauren Francis-Sharma
- Narrado por: Ron Butler, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 13 h y 3 m
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Lauren Francis-Sharma's 'Til the Well Runs Dry opens in a seaside village in the north of Trinidad where young Marcia Garcia, a gifted and smart-mouthed 16-year-old seamstress, lives alone, raising two small boys and guarding a family secret. When she meets Farouk Karam, an ambitious young policeman, the risks and rewards in Marcia's life amplify forever.
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Most wells I knew as a boy…
- De Louie Crew Clay en 09-08-15
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Sharks in the Time of Saviors
- De: Kawai Strong Washburn
- Narrado por: Jolene Kim, Kaleo Griffith, G. K. Bowes, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking his story as the stuff of legends. Nainoa’s family, struggling amidst the collapse of the sugarcane industry, hails his rescue as a sign of favor from ancient Hawaiian gods - a belief that appears validated after he exhibits puzzling new abilities.
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Glad This Was Free
- De Shad Huddleston en 04-01-20
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Furies
- Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed
- De: Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, y otros
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck, Charles Armstrong, Gabrielle Glaister, y otros
- Duración: 8 h
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For centuries past, and all across the world, there are words for a certain kind of woman. Words that raise our hackles, fire up our blood. Words that tell a story. In this blazing cauldron of a book, the boldest writers of our day take up these words and take up their pen, celebrating fifty years of Virago.
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NOT Atwood's best. Multiple writers bad idea.
- De Amazon Customer en 07-03-23
De: Margaret Atwood, y otros
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White Cat, Black Dog
- Stories
- De: Kelly Link
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman, Dan Stevens, Dominic Hoffman, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into utterly original stories of seekers—characters on the hunt for love, connection, revenge, or their own sense of purpose. Twisting and winding in astonishing ways, expertly blending realism and the speculative, witty, empathetic, and never predictable—these stories remind us once again of why Kelly Link is incomparable in the art of short fiction.
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Weird stories that seem to have no point
- De Erinne Brown en 12-09-23
De: Kelly Link
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Symphony of Secrets
- De: Brendan Slocumb
- Narrado por: Chanté McCormick, Brendan Slocumb
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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Bern Hendricks has just received the call of a lifetime. As one of the world’s preeminent experts on the famed twentieth-century composer Frederick Delaney, Bern knows everything there is to know about the man behind the music. When Mallory Roberts, a board member of the distinguished Delaney Foundation and direct descendant of the man himself, asks for Bern’s help authenticating a newly discovered piece, which may be his famous lost opera, RED, he jumps at the chance.
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Engaging and clever
- De BookJunkie en 04-22-23
De: Brendan Slocumb
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Replay
- De: Ken Grimwood
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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In 1988, 43-year-old Jeff Winston died of a heart attack. But then he awoke, and it was 1963; Jeff was 18 all over again, his memory of the next two decades intact. This time around, Jeff would gain all the power and wealth he never had before. This time around he'd know how to do it right. Until next time.
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My Favorite Book for the past 10 years
- De psnorb en 12-29-08
De: Ken Grimwood
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How to Talk to Anyone
- 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
- De: Leil Lowndes
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean, Leil Lowndes
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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What is that magic quality that makes some people instantly loved and respected? Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, their lover!) In business, they rise swiftly to the top of the corporate ladder. What is their "Midas touch?"
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Good info, but painful to listen to
- De Scott en 09-19-16
De: Leil Lowndes
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
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- caleb nelson
- 01-06-20
well read, well written, brilliant and provocative
Every story has a magical and fresh energy. The ideas, like framing fixing a clock tower as a political act that sends a guy to jail, burst with creativity and prescient momentum. I'm starting it over again now.
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- Jocelyn
- 04-13-17
Probably a better read...
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I suspect because of the striking imagery, the distinct plots and the technique of using the key to create an overall arch, it is a book that is easier to read than it is to listen to. I often found myself wishing I could look back at some of the language and revisit some of the stories, as the imagery would make my mind drift and I would lose entire sections of the story that had continued. This was not the fault of the performers, but of my own mind and listening skills.
Because of that, I am not sure I was ever completely drawn into this book as I have been by others that I have listened to. Unlike some that I am rushing to finish, this book has taken me weeks to complete. Because of the nature of the disconnected stories, I often contemplated not finishing it at all... not because I didn't enjoy it, but because I felt no urgency to finish it.
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- Ronesha
- 06-09-16
Another great read from Helen!
If you are looking for unconventional short stories and fairytale this is it. I struggled to clearly hear based on the accents, but I probably need to get used to them.
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- jared rogerson
- 03-15-18
clever
perplexing, creative, unique, original not like anything else I have ever read. worth your time.
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- Lucy Merriman
- 08-09-17
Top marks
Listened to it all in a week, mostly. The stories are character driven, surreal, and lovely. Some of them seem to end abryptly, but after thinking on them some more, that fit really well too.
There's nothing in the book that's scary or violent, which is a nice change of pace for me, and the time taken with detours, to hear characters thoughts and worldviews, worked remarkably well. The narration was spot on, with different stories using different narrators.
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- Lisa Ann Robertson
- 08-09-20
Utterly Original
This delightful set of stories features characters that weave in and out of whimsical yet provocative story lines. Oyeyeme productively withholds closure yet still manages to make important points. The key and lock theme that runs throughout intrigues and invites further investigation. It's an impressive and thoroughly enjoyable book. I want to read/listen to more by her.
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- Katherine L Hicks
- 09-18-17
Couldn't get through it
I didn't connect with the short story characters and I could get beyond halfway through.
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- Laura Collins, M.Div.
- 01-25-17
Not a Book for Listening
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
Our Book Club picked this book and overall had mixed reviews, but the two of us who tried to listen to it were completely lost. The book includes fantastical action and shape-shifting characters, all of which gets completely lost in listening. When I finally saw the book and realized there were different styles of print for different voices and interesting visual breaks within the story to indicate a change in time or scene, I realized it would be a very different experience to see these words on the page. Listening was a nightmare. Each story had a different narrator, but the characters within the stories were not well differentiated by the voices. The pauses between stories were almost not there and several times one story ended and another one started without me even realizing it. If you are interested in this book, buy a physical copy so you can see it and hopefully make some sense of it.
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