A review by wigstown
The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi

3.0

Most of me felt like a voyeur listening in on a very private conversation. The whispers are about two girls growing up displaced, in a world not their own (but not mine either). The parallel tales seldom seem to cross. The magic of those first pages, Yemaya in her somewherehouse with its two doors (one into London and one into Lagos, is seldom replicated. Maja can't replicate. She seems too wrapped up in herself. I liked it when her son punched through the pages, but he seldom did.