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From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Oyeyemi delivers her third passionate and unusual book, a neo-gothic tale revolving around Miranda and Eliot Silver, fraternal twins of Haitian descent raised in a British house haunted by generations of afflicted, displaced family members, including their mother. Miranda suffers from pica, an affliction that causes her to eat nonedible items, which is passed down to her via the specters from her childhood that now punctuate her nightmares. As the novel progresses, the increasingly violent nature of this bizarre, insatiable hunger reveals itself to be the ironclad grip of the dead over the living or of mother over daughter. The book is structured around multiple voices—including that of the house itself—that bleed into one another. Appealing from page one, the story, like the house, becomes extremely foreboding, as the house is storing its collapse and can only be as good as those who inhabit it. The house's protective, selfish voice carries a child's vision of loss: in the absence of a mother, feelings of anger, betrayal and bodily desire replace the sensation of connection. Unconventional, intoxicating and deeply disquieting. (June) Copyright

Who reads White Is for Witching?

Author

Helen Oyeyemi

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780330458153

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Horror

Rating

3.59 / 5 (3,039 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14