What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Oyeyemi Helen

[Page 4] RIVERHEAD BOOKS An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 375 Hudson Street New York, New York 10014 Copyright © 2016 by Helen Oyeyemi Penguin supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin to continue to publish books for every reader. The following stories have been previously published: “Books and Roses” (excerpt, Granta 129: Fate ); “Drownings” ( The White Review ); “‘Sorry’ Doesn’t Sweeten Her Tea” ( Ploughshares ); “Dornička and the St. Martin’s Day Goose” (Hayward Gallery anthology Carsten Höller: Decision ). The lines here are from (“Rice”), originally published in the poetry collection (No Place to Go Back for Longing) by Jak-ga-jeong-shin, Seoul, South Korea, 1998. Reproduced by permission of Chun Yang Hee. The lines here are from Karel Jaromír Erben, Kytice , translated from the Czech by Susan Reynolds (London: Jantar Publishing, 2013). eBook ISBN 978-0-698-40787-9 This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Version_1 [Page 5] co