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White Is for Witching
First edition
AuthorHelen Oyeyemi
LanguageEnglish
GenreContemporary fantasy
PublisherHamish Hamilton
Publication date
2009

White Is for Witching (published in Britain as Pie-kah)[1] is a 2009 novel by British author Helen Oyeyemi. The novel, Oyeyemi's third, won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award. Combining elements of ghost, vampire, and haunted house stories,[2] White Is for Witching concerns a twin named Miranda and her relationship with the sentient, xenophobic house she inhabits. A French translation was published as Le Blanc va aux sorcières in 2011.[3]

  1. ^ Ervin, Andrew (8 September 2009). "Miri's Hunger". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  2. ^ Stephanou, Aspasia (30 December 2014). "Helen Oyeyemi's White Is for Witching and the Discourse of Consumption". Callaloo. 37 (5): 1245–1259. doi:10.1353/cal.2014.0209. ISSN 1080-6512. S2CID 162386950.
  3. ^ Ervin, Andrew (8 September 2009). "Miri's Hunger". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 29 May 2020.

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