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Helen Oyeyemi

“But Jess was sliding breathlessly down into the waiting sky, so she couldn't find the words to tell TillyTilly that sisters was something about being held without hands, and the skin-flinch of seeing and simultaneously being seen.”

Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl
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The Icarus Girl The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
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