(originally posted on September 25, 2007)
Oyeyemi follows up her wonderful debut THE ICARUS GIRL with a luminous, exquisitely written account of the fracture points of a Cuban family in London after the mother increasingly chooses the siren call of Santeria over almost all else. But it is the strong friendship, the high and low points, between Maja and fellow outsider Amy Eleni that really elevates this book into something truly special.
