Fox's fiction) wrestle their way in as well, and include the intriguing tale of an orphan boy in Egypt and a Nigerian girl with a heavy heart and an impossible little girl's paid companion. Oyeyemi recounts this multi-layered tale from each of her characters' viewpoints (often in letter form, and at times from alternate versions of a character, such as "Dream-Mary"), yet the larger effect feels muddled rather than illuminating. Thus begins a playful but frustrating examination of storytelling, inspiration, and mythology, with a specific focus on how some male writers have traditionally treated their female characters. John Fox receives a visit from his muse Mary while his wife Daphne, whom he taught early on not to complain, sits upstairs. In this highly conceptual novel from Oyeyemi (White Is for Witching), the writer St.
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