Description
After the death of her mother, sixteen-year-old Miranda Silver lives with her twin brother, Eliot, and their father in a sinister ancestral house in Dover that has been transformed into a bed-and-breakfast. As Miranda’s rare eating disorder, loneliness, and increasingly troubling behavior deepen, her disappearance takes on an unsettling supernatural dimension. Blending Gothic horror with folklore—including Snow White and Caribbean vampiric traditions—the novel explores grief, family inheritance, racism, belonging, and the lingering power of the past. Helen Oyeyemi’s sharply written, intricately constructed tale reimagines the haunted house as both a literal presence and a symbol of traditions that refuse to die.
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hardcover
Picador
Published Jul 7, 2009
192 pages
ISBN: 9780330458146
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Details
First Published
2009
Language
eng
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Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi.