This might be the best collection of short stories I've ever read. Oyeyemi has crafted an interwoven set of tales of magical realism, full of keys, locked doors, hidden libraries, secrets and emotions. Nearly every story's protagonist is a queer person of color, and many of the characters appear in multiple stories. In "Sorry Doesn't Sweeten Her Tea", a man helps his boyfriend with the tumultuous task of parenting two teenage daughters, Dayang and Aisha. This story mostly focuses on Aisha's heartbreak when her musical idol commits a terrible crime. She appears in a later story, grown up, as an idol herself. One of my favorites stories, "A Brief History of the Homely Wench Society", follows Dayang during part of her first year at Cambridge. She is invited to join the Homely Wenches, a feminist literary club first founded in opposition to an exclusive male Cambridge student society. When one of the Homely Wench members discovers the key to the rival club's house, naturally they decide to plan a midnight raid on it's library.