{"id":3122,"date":"2016-03-06T08:14:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T13:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2016-03-06T08:15:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T13:15:40","slug":"this-happened-and-it-didnt-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2016\/03\/06\/this-happened-and-it-didnt-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This happened, and it didn&#8217;t happen&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking fo<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2016\/03\/517dcLzyLnL._SX316_BO1204203200_.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3123\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3123\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2016\/03\/517dcLzyLnL._SX316_BO1204203200_-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"517dcLzyLnL._SX316_BO1,204,203,200_\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2016\/03\/517dcLzyLnL._SX316_BO1204203200_-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2016\/03\/517dcLzyLnL._SX316_BO1204203200_.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a>rward to reading\u00a0Helen\u00a0Oyeyemi&#8217;s new collection of short stories<em>&#8212;<\/em>official publication date March 7. \u00a0And I love the fact that Oyeyemi uses my favorite opening line for a fairy tale: &#8220;This happened, and it didn&#8217;t happen.&#8221; Here&#8217;s one review, along with jacket copy.<\/p>\n<p><em>So it is in Oyeyemi\u2019s <em>What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, a<\/em>\u00a0collection of stories in which elements of fairy tales, myths and legends, from Punchinello to Cupid and Psyche to Little Red Riding Hood and Bluebeard and Rumpelstiltskin, surface in curious forms in service of mystifying plots. As we\u2019re told in the opening of the story \u201cDrownings\u201d: \u201cThis happened and it didn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/lifestyles\/books\/20160304-an-intricately-woven-fairy-tales-will-challenge-engage-and-satisfy.ece<\/p>\n<p><em>Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours is cleverly built around the idea of keys, literal and metaphorical. The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret\u2014Oyeyemi\u2019s keys not only unlock elements of her characters\u2019 lives, they promise further labyrinths on the other side. In \u201cBooks and Roses\u201d one special key opens a library, a garden, and clues to at least two lovers\u2019 fates. In \u201cIs Your Blood as Red as This?\u201d an unlikely key opens the heart of a student at a puppeteering school. \u201c\u2018Sorry\u2019 Doesn\u2019t Sweeten Her Tea\u201d involves a \u201chouse of locks,\u201d where doors can be closed only with a key\u2014with surprising, unobservable developments. And in \u201cIf a Book Is Locked There\u2019s Probably a Good Reason for That Don&#8217;t You Think,\u201d a key keeps a mystical diary locked (for good reason). <\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to reading\u00a0Helen\u00a0Oyeyemi&#8217;s new collection of short stories&#8212;official publication date March 7. \u00a0And I love the fact that Oyeyemi uses my favorite opening line for a fairy tale: &#8220;This happened, and it didn&#8217;t happen.&#8221; Here&#8217;s one review, along with jacket copy. So it is in Oyeyemi\u2019s What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3127,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions\/3127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}