Embracing a voice uniquely her own, nonetheless, Oyeyemi toys with the reader with titles like "if a guide is locked there is likely a great cause for that don’t you feel." Then, she infuses that wryness with piercing emotion, as in the story "is your blood as purple as this," in which the narrator, uninhibited, observes a character at a social gathering, "you had a string of fairy lights wrapped all over your neck.