Parasol Against the Axe: A Novel

Parasol Against the Axe: A NovelONE OF BIBLIOLIFESTYLES BEST LITERARY FICTION OF 2024 "A shape shifting novel about the power of storiesHelen 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 BorgesA dizzying, dazzling romp. Kirkus Reviews The prize winning, bestselling

When a bleeding woman stumbles onto his doorway

Josephine then took Paris by storm

a heart of iron and a new A

Salama must contend with bullets and bombs

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award • Dayton Literary Prize Finalist • PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Finalist • Kirkus Prize Finalist

Prose to the People explores a these spaces

Both Millie and Agatha are forced to question just how much of themselves they are willing to trade to get what they want

she is determined to stay clean and regain custody of her two children

as long as she keeps playing the ideal Black trophy wife until the election

ISBN: 0316229245

and move the clouds

sweet story is dedicated to all the kids whose names might feel too different