Jessamy "Jess" is an eight-year-old caught between two different worlds. The daughter of a Nigerian mother and a non-Nigerian father, she has always felt like a misfit. She is smart and precocious, but can't seem to get along in school. When Jess and her family go to Nigeria so Jess could meet her family on her mothers side, she experiences something new and becomes friends with what i like to call a spirit called "Tilly Tilly" enters Jess and changes her life for ever. From that day on, Jess was never free of Tilly Tilly and as a result, Jess begins to act out more then normal. She would miss behave in school and through tantrums. Concerned about Jess her parents take her to a therapist who makes very little headway. He does determine, though that Tilly Tilly is in some way related in Jess's mind to her twin sister who died in infancy. Most of the novel is an account of Tilly Tilly's involvement with Jess and the impact that this spirit has on Jess's life.
When reading the book the Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi I looked at life in a new prospective. What if everyone had someone like Tilly Tilly with them and changes the lives of people daily. I know it is kind of out there thinking that there may be a spirit that causes us to do things and act out, but is it actually that crazy? Do we run are lives or is there a Tilly Tilly watching over us and guiding are day?
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