Peaces

Praise for Peaces:

“In her latest novel—set on an esoteric, ramshackle, Wes Anderson–esque train to nowhere—Oyeyemi achieves the impossible: She unstirs the soup, reconstituting the links that bind her eccentric cast of characters to one another.” —The New York Times Editor’s Choice

“Enchanting . . . the most surprising, confounding, and oddly insightful couple’s trip in recent literary history.” —Entertainment Weekly

“Welcome back to the magical, maddening milieu of Oyeyemi’s singular fiction, in which trapdoors spring open and revelations emerge like Russian nesting dolls.” —O, The Oprah Magazine

“The novel weaves a romantic and surreal path through the fever dream of Oyeyemi’s imagination.” —Esquire

“Oyeyemi is a master of leaps of thought and inference, of shifty velocity, and the story’s long setup has the discombobulating quality of walking through a moving vehicle while carrying a full-to-the-brim cup of very hot tea.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Peaces is elliptical and strange and funny, and despite its Wes Anderson–like setting, it’s a very bleak little cautionary tale. It proposes that failing to grasp someone’s essential self is pernicious and contagious, that we mistake outlines and portraits for bodies and souls. This train story becomes a comedy of manners built around the gravest possible breach of etiquette: refusing, literally, to see someone.” —Vulture

“Glorious.” —Vox

“Weird and wonderful . . . Oyeyemi skillfully crafts a most creative story that evokes life’s deeper questions.” —The Christian Science Monitor

“[P]ractically mind altering . . . Oyeyemi trains her irresistible prose and considerable powers of perception on the uncanny valley that forms between one person’s experience and another’s interpretation, divergences that cast eerie shadows on the course of relationships past, present and future. A superbly fun Rorschach test of staggering creativity.” —Shelf Awareness

“Oyeyemi once again pushes the boundaries of the novel. . . . A surrealist tale of love, heartbreak, and being haunted by the past.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Curious characters, strange events, and mysteries abound in Oyeyemi’s delightfully bonkers latest. . . . this exciting and inventive novel brims with unusual insights.” —Publishers Weekly

“Delightfully weird and deliciously eccentric . . . quite unnerving, and it’s due in large part to Oyeyemi’s choice to conceal the truth, to keep you interested, eager to figure out the mystery.” —Chicago Review of Books
 
“Oyeyemi has once again crafted a layered modern-day fairy tale replete with interlinked stories and unexpected connections among its vibrant characters.” —Booklist

“Peaces is like the work of a hypnotist: those open to its allure will inevitably fall under its thrall.” —BookPage

“A wild wonderland full of rabbit holes that seem to lead nowhere and yet somehow connect.” —Ploughshares

“The premise is whimsical, but the narrative unfolds into darker, more existential layers. . . . Oyeyemi’s prose is hypnotic, rendering the story both cinematic and quick to stoke the reader’s own imagination.” —Shondaland.com
 
“Peaces is indeed set on a train, but while it contains no small amount of mystery and intrigue, at its core it is a romantic reckoning, and a provocation: What does it mean to really see someone?” —Lit Hub
 
“A surreal, inspired journey.” —The Millions