White is for Witching

White is for Witching - Paperback

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White is for Witching - Paperback

White is for Witching - Paperback

by Helen Oyeyemi
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by Helen Oyeyemi (Author)

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award

One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists

From the acclaimed author of What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Gingerbread, and Peaces

There's something strange about the Silver family house in the closed-off town of Dover, England. Grand and cavernous with hidden passages and buried secrets, it's been home to four generations of Silver women--Anna, Jennifer, Lily, and now Miranda, who has lived in the house with her twin brother, Eliot, ever since their father converted it to a bed-and-breakfast.

The Silver women have always had a strong connection, a pull over one another that reaches across time and space, and when Lily, Miranda's mother, passes away suddenly while on a trip abroad, Miranda begins suffering strange ailments. An eating disorder starves her. She begins hearing voices. When she brings a friend home, Dover's hostility toward outsiders physically manifests within the four walls of the Silver house, and the lives of everyone inside are irrevocably changed.

At once an unforgettable mystery and a meditation on race, nationality, and family legacies, White is for Witching is a boldly original, terrifying, and elegant novel by a prodigious talent.

Author Biography

Helen Oyeyemi is the author of five novels, most recently White Is for Witching, which won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award, Mr. Fox, which won a 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Boy, Snow, Bird. In 2013, she was named one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists. She lives in Prague.

Number of Pages: 304
Dimensions: 1 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN
Publication Date: February 04, 2014
Large Print: Yes
ISBN9781594633072
Author Helen Oyeyemi
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 2014
LanguageENG- English
Pages304
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeLarge Print

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