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100 1 $aOyeyemi, Helen.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004032403
245 14 $aThe opposite house /$cHelen Oyeyemi.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bNan A. Talese/Doubleday,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $a257 pages ;$c22 cm
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520 1 $a"In a follow-up to The Icarus Girl, Helen Oyeyemi explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women and their search for the truth about faith and identity." "Maja was five years old when her black Cuban family emigrated from the Caribbean to London. Now, almost twenty years later, Maja is a singer, in love with Aaron, pregnant, and haunted by what she calls "my Cuba." Growing up in London, she has struggled to negotiate her history and the sense that speaking Spanish or English has made her less of a black girl. But she is unable to find herself in the Ewe, Igbo, or Akum of her roots. It seems all that's left is silence." "Meanwhile, distance from Cuba has only deepened Maja's mother's faith in Santeria - the fusion of Catholicism and West African Yoruba religion - but it also divides the family, as her father rails against his wife's superstitions and the lost dreams of the Castro revolution." "On the other side of the reality wall, Yemaya Saramagua, a Santeria emissary, lives in a somewherehouse with two doors: one opening to London, the other to Lagos. Yemaya is troubled by the ease with which her fellow emissaries have disguised themselves behind the personas of saints and by her inability to recognize them." "The Opposite House is about the disquiet that follows us across places and languages, a feeling passed down from mother and father to son and daughter."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aYoung women$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114026
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