What Is Yours is Not Yours

 

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This is a book of short stories, but the characters repeat throughout, so you have to keep track of who is who. Which is difficult because some of them are real people, and some of them are conscious puppets and the whole thing is rather confusing, trying to keep which parallel world is which. I gave it two stars because I really did like "presence"--a haunting and beautiful story of regret and love. But I lost my grip on the rest of it--there are some pieces that were good, but it was just too much to keep track of for me in the end.

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