![]() ![]() ![]() The cabinet also boasts a young woman who inherits a library an organization called the Homely Wench Society a clinic skilled in plunging customers into “drug-induced and -maintained deep sleep” for the purpose of weight loss office employees who wear gloves indoors to avoid incriminating fingerprints a fretful ghost. Martin’s Day Goose.” Meanwhile, “Is Your Blood as Red as This?” contains an echo of “Pinocchio,” and the opening story commences with the phrase “Once upon a time.” The pleasurable awareness of a story being told courses through the collection like electricity, down to the knowing quality of a title like “If a Book Is Locked There’s Probably a Good Reason for That Don’t You Think.” $27.Īngela Carter, in a letter to Robert Coover, once wrote: “I really do believe that a fiction absolutely self-conscious of itself as a different form of human experience than reality (that is, not a logbook of events) can help to transform reality itself.”Ĭarter’s observation struck me while I was reading Helen Oyeyemi’s transcendent first collection of stories, “What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours,” where the cabinet of wonders includes Little Red Riding Hood reborn, with an unlikely entity assuming the role of the girl in red, in “Dornicka and the St. WHAT IS NOT YOURS IS NOT YOURS Stories By Helen Oyeyemi 325 pp. ![]()
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