Mrs Michaux :
My first impressions after reading White is for Witching ? “Ok! Let’s
reread the first pages to see if what I had missed then, now makes sense!” And
although it does come together in the end, a blurry and foggy sensation still
pervades, which is precisely where, to me, Helen Oyeyemi’s success lies:
managing to go back and forth between a quite anecdotical and down-to-earth
reality, and something of a more ungraspable, ephemereal and bewitching nature.
Besides, we move from one character’s point of
view to the other, as if we were moving from one room of the House to the
other...I sometimes felt “lost”—like most of our students!—but the journey into
that novel is definitely worth it!
There are many “entries” to the story and I
sure hope our students will let one of them reach out to them: “White is for
witching, a colour to be worn so that all other colours can enter you, so that
you may use them.” (WW, p117)
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