Vagabonds! flirting with the auto-fictional mode

flirting with the auto-fictional mode while sitting squarely in the tradition of the gothic

"A shape-shifting novel about the power of stories…Helen Oyeyemi is a literary pied piper — her voice is the kind that readers gamely follow into the most bewildering and unnerving of situations

angry at her objectification of men

and even glitter

where he finds unfinished manuscripts written by his parents that seem to mutate every time he picks them up and a bizarre home video that hints at long-buried secrets

Vagabonds! flirting with the auto-fictional modeLike new, paperback In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characterssome haunted, some defiantnavigate danger, demons, and love in a quest to lead true lives. As in Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the queer, the poor, the displaced, the footloose and rogue spirits. They are those who inhabit transient spaces, who make their paths and move invisibly, who embrace apparitions, old