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Jessamy "Jess" Harrison can be an eight year old caught between two worlds. Born to a British isles father and a Nigerian mom, she has permanently thought like she doesn't belong. Jessamy is precocious but has difficulty getting along in college; she throws tantrums seemingly at random and makes life a challenge for her parents. Believing a change from her English environment might be the perfect antidote to Jess's troubles, her parents whisk her off to Nigeria to visit relatives. But Jessamy's plight is only start when she satisfies Titiola, or TillyTilly, who is actually invisible to everyone else but flawlessly real to Jess. Slowly but surely, Tilly's presence in Jessamy's life becomes increasingly more disturbing; she looks out of nowhere, makes fearful things eventually those who give Jess trouble. One day TillyTilly informs Jess that she, Jess, acquired acquired a twin who was simply stillborn. Tilly, it seems, may have come from the Nature World to be the sister that Jess never really had - no matter the means. The Icarus Gal is a haunting story about doubles - both in a real and religious sense. With genuineness, elegance and assurance, Helen Oyeyemi brings us into Jessamy's world and makes the fantastic seductively tangible.
