Conjuring an Imaginary Friend in the Search for an Authentic Self - New York Times: "The book, about an 8-year-old girl with an eerie imaginary friend, attracted gleaming reviews and buzz in Britain after its initial publication in January. Ms. Oyeyemi was called 'astonishing' in a review in The London Sunday Telegraph and 'extraordinary' by The Financial Times, which said she could claim a place among Amos Tutuola, Chinua Achebe and Ben Okri, all English-language Nigerian-born writers. Now, the soft-spoken 20-year-old Ms. Oyeyemi is looking forward to the American release of 'The Icarus Girl,' which is being released today in the United States by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday.
'I guess I don't really believe it's happening,' she said of her splashy debut during a recent interview in New York. She recalled obsessively writing 'The Icarus Girl' at her parent's computer on weekends, after school and in the middle of the night. She likened it to being in love. She rushed the first 20 pages off to an agent whose name she plucked from a directory of agents."
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