The New York Times compared the novel to Toni Morrison's Beloved and Chris Abani's Song for the Night. However, everything was so muddled. When Miranda returns home, now so weak she has difficulty walking and seeing, she invites Ore to stay with her. In a vast, mysterious house on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the hole punched into its heart. After I finished it I turned the light of to go to sleep, and I couldn't turn my brain off. But in the end even those sentences did not make up for my disappointment. Now, she is ready to make the transition from wunderkind to established author. The White Is for Witching Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by … ISBN-13: 9781594633072 Summary Miranda is at home—homesick, home sick ... As a child, Miranda Silver developed pica, a rare eating disorder that causes its victims to consume nonedible substances. i'm not sure what this book is. Or at least fake it. ""Miranda is at home"--"homesick, home sick ...""As a child, Miranda Silver developed pica, a rare eating disorder that causes its victims to consume nonedible substances. White is for Witching - Kindle edition by Oyeyemi, Helen. Ore accepts, though she's been warned about Dover's reputation for xenophobia. White is for Witching Review. I don't even know who was who until I got to around page 30 or 40 or something like that. As she tries to leave, Ore has a series of hallucinatory encounters with the House: She encounters a little girl in the elevator, holding something bloody and covered in flies. Welcome back. And “White Is for Witching” turns out to be a delightfully unconventional coming-of-age story. Again I had to go back to find it, the time. A lyrical book about a house that keeps its women captive. I couldn't be bothered. And yet, I just can't really bring myself to give it more than the middle-of-the-bell curve 3 star rating. There were times I did, but I lost it. The New York Times compared the novel to Toni Morrison's Beloved and Chris Abani's Song for the Night. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading White is for Witching. "[2], "Helen Oyeyemi's White Is for Witching and the Discourse of Consumption", "Review: White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi", "White is for Witching, by Helen Oyeyemi", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=White_Is_for_Witching&oldid=973615287, Short description with empty Wikidata description, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 18 August 2020, at 06:40. Review 'Helen Oyeyemi writes the kind of prose that creeps off the page, crawls up … Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Buy the eBook. While one character worries that she may be fading into a sketched stick figure or that, in fact, she may have been dead for some time now, Oyeyemi never lets her characters become ciphers or stand-ins. Maybe the house was playing tricks on me. In 2013, she was named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. White Is for Witching (published in Britain as Pie-kah)[1] is a 2009 novel by British author Helen Oyeyemi. Unfortunately, I feel a bit like I did after reading the Goon Squad: that is, maybe there is nothing to find and so it's not really that the book is challenging me, but instead is simply that I am second guessing my own reaction. Eliot thinks he hears Miranda's footsteps in the attic of the Silver House. I think Oyeyemi is, This is the first book I'd read by Helen Oyeyemi, and I instantly had to purchase everything else. Usually that would be right up my alley. I'm considering assigning this as an option for an independent reading assignment for a class of high school sophomores (all girls). Then the POV switches to a first-person...is this now Luc speaking? Grand and cavernous with hidden passages and buried secrets, it's been home to four generations of Silver … Unfortunately, I feel a bit like I did after reading the Goon Squad: that is, maybe there is nothing to find and so it's not really that the book is challenging me, but instead is simply that I am second guessing my own reaction. 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. 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 writing is just broken sentences and thoughts. of the heroine, Miranda Silver. Narrative structure and clarity is not to be found here although she does create poetry with her words. but i liked it more than i seem to have here. White Is for Witching is Oyeyemi’s third novel. What do you think? White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi, 9780330458153, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Or at least fake it. Right now, she's doing work that writers twice her age only wish they could do. When part one starts, it's describing Luc. I’m really not sure where to start with this review. Ore answers that Miranda is in the ground below the Silver House, her throat blocked by a chunk of apple. (And moan, I think she wrote this one when she was 23.) Miranda heads to Cambridge alone, where she begins a romantic relationship with a girl named Ore, who is of Nigerian descent. Combining elements of ghost, vampire, and haunted house stories,[2] White Is for Witching concerns a twin named Miranda and her relationship with the sentient, xenophobic house she inhabits. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. But the ending, sigh, I find it a bit unsatisfying, I wish there had been a massive impressive showdown with the goodlady/soucouyant and then after that Ore and Miranda could settle down together and live happily ever after. Bewildered. Again I had to go back to find it, the time. I was never able to find the rhythm of this. The Silver House answers that Miranda is at home, "homesick, home sick.". We’d love your help. In the story, the soucouyant is defeated when a girl rubs its abandoned skin with salt and pepper, preventing the soucouyant from re-entering. Maybe for people with an interest in books about mental illness, who like that subject presented in a sort of mythopoetic manner. But it also *is* the women in the family. Throughout the book we follow her downward spiral, through deep illness to attempted revelry at university, alongside her twin brother and widow father. disappearance? This is the first book I'd read by Helen Oyeyemi, and I instantly had to purchase everything else. Miranda's old shoes continually fill with a thick red liquid that smells like roses. One of Granta ’s Best Young British Novelists. —The Independent "Oyeyemi is a writer who moves easily between the literary, the demotic and the supernatural…. i guess in that way, it is like the real-life situation of never knowing when the last time you will see someone will b. i read this. I think, "I bet a city woman on a subway would understand this thing." Ore sees a photo of long-haired Miranda pre-breakdown but can't believe it's her, because Miranda has now almost completely taken on the appearances of Lily, Jennifer, and Anna.