The House of Discarded Dreams

by Ekaterina Sedia

Book Overview

Trying to escape her embarrassing immigrant mother, Vimbai moves into a dilapidated house in the dunes... and discovers that one of her new roommates has a pocket universe instead of hair, there's a psychic energy baby living in the telephone wires, and her dead Zimbabwean grandmother is doing dishes in the kitchen. When the house gets lost at sea and creatures of African urban legends all but take it over, Vimbai turns to horseshoe crabs in the ocean...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607012286
• ISBN13: 9781607012283
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Prime Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.5"