Helen Oyeyemi

The audacious first novel from the award-winning and highly acclaimed Helen Oyeyemi.Jessamy “Jess” Harrison, age eight, is the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother. Possessed of an extraordinary imagination, she has a hard time fitting in at school. It is only when she visits Nigeria for the first time …

The Opposite House is a novel by British author Helen Oyeyemi first published by Penguin Books in 2007.

The widely acclaimed novel that brilliantly recasts the Snow White fairy tale as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity.In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty—the opposite of the life she’s left behind in New York. She marries …

A collection of stories by the award-winning author of Boy Snow Bird features entries about literal and metaphorical keys that open or shut the fates of lovers the heart of a puppeteering student and the doors of a house of locks that holds unobservable developments