The Independent reviews an interesting new novel, “The Opposite House”, by Helen Oyeyemi, which mixes the poetry and ideas of Emily Dickinson with Cuban Santeria. It’s hard to imagine two worlds so different, but the review certainly makes this an intriguing novel:
The novel follows two parallel narratives: pregnant Maja, an Afro-Cuban jazz singer living in London with her white Ghanaian lover, and Yemaya or Aya, a Santeria Goddess in the “somewherehouse” with its two doors on to Lagos and London. “I feel there are two different kinds of real,” Oyeyemi says. “Each story is the story of the house opposite it. They are like reversals of each other.”
This novel becomes available State-side on June 19; you can be sure it goes on my library reserve list soon thereafter, no doubt with a review at my usual site.
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