Helen Oyeyemi is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The Icarus Girl, which she wrote before her nineteenth birthday. In her follow-up novel, Oyeyemi explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women and their search for the truth about faith and identity: Maja, a young Caribbean émigré to London and Yemaya Saramagua, a Santeria emissary who lives in a somewherehouse with two doors: one opening to London, the other to Lagos.