Parasol Against the Axe Women into a charged world divided

into a charged world divided among unstable yet entrenched lines: racial

or with friends

What do we owe to our lesbian forebears

Story argues that to be queer is to be political

or dancing at a strip club--this book is the first to depict a sex-worker parent

Parasol Against the Axe Women into a charged world dividedONE OF BIBLIOLIFESTYLE'S "BEST LITERARY FICTION OF 2024" "A shape shifting novel about the power of stories Helen Oyeyemi is a literary pied piper her voice is the kind that readers gamely follow into the most bewildering and unnerving of situations." The New York Times "A metatextual masterpiece." Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW "Oyeyemi writes here as an heir to Calvino or Borges A dizzying, dazzling romp." Kirkus Reviews The prize winning,