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Title: The Icarus Girl: A Novel
Author: Helen Oyeyemi
Narrator: Bahni Turpin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-28-11
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 70 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Jessamy "Jess" Harrison is an eight year old caught between two worlds. Born to a British father and a Nigerian mother, she has forever felt like she doesn't belong. Jessamy is precocious but has difficulty getting along in school; she throws tantrums seemingly at random and makes life a challenge for her parents. Believing that a change from her English environment might be the perfect antidote to Jess's troubles, her parents whisk her off to Nigeria to visit relatives.
But Jessamy's plight is only beginning when she meets Titiola, or TillyTilly, who happens to be invisible to everyone else but perfectly real to Jess. Gradually, Tilly's presence in Jessamy's life becomes more and more disturbing; she appears out of nowhere, makes fearful things happen to those who give Jess trouble. One day TillyTilly informs Jess that she, Jess, had had a twin who was stillborn. Tilly, it seems, may have come from the Spirit World to be the sister that Jess never had - no matter the means.
The Icarus Girl is a haunting tale about doubles - both in a real and spiritual sense. With genuineness, grace and confidence, Helen Oyeyemi brings us into Jessamy's world and makes the fantastic seductively tangible.
Critic Reviews:
"Oyeyemi subtly weaves together Nigerian myth and a classic doppelganger tale to create a sensitive and precocious debut." (Booklist)
"Oyeyemi brilliantly conjures up the raw emotions and playground banter of childhood.... A masterly first novel." (The New York Times Book Review)
"Haunting and suspense-filled." (The Washington Post Book World)