My second read for my summer of houses reading project is Helen Oyeyemi’s White
is For Witching. As I mentioned in my previous post, Oyeyemi’s writing has been compared to Shirley Jackson’s,
and for the gothic tone and...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka
