User:Maddangelastro/sandbox

The main character, Vimbai, is a young college student trying to escape her Zimbabwean culture and her overbearing immigrant mother. After skipping class and taking a walk on the beach, Vimbai finds an ad for a house to rent. The opportunity comes at the perfect time and Vimbai decides it is time to leave her parents house to find herself. She moves in with Maya and Felix and strange events being to take place. Vimbai finds a psychic energy baby living in the telephone wires and discovers that one of her roommates has a pocket universe instead of hair. As if things couldn't get any more strange, her dead Zimbabwean grandmother is now doing dishes in the kitchen. Strange beings start moving under the porch and the house continues to grow and drastically change to include forests and lakes. Creatires from African urban ledgends all but take over and the house gets lost at sea. Vimbai has to find a way bak to the real world and turns to horseshoe crabs in the ocean for help in getting home. In order to do so, she finds that she much come to terms with her past... A past that only exists in discarded dreams. Surprisingly, The overall affect of the novel is dreamily compelling rather than preposterous and Sedia shows how competing natural and supernatural worlds can enrich each other.