One of six books she recommended at The Week magazine:
White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi (2009).Read about the other entries on the list.
Oyeyemi's third novel takes the typical haunted-house narrative and uses it to examine racism and the inevitable pull of the past. Nothing here is quite normal: Apples grow in the cellar, the house speaks to us, and the protagonist — a sufferer from an eating disorder that compels her to eat things that are not food — has gone missing.
--Marshal Zeringue
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