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Parasol Against the Axe Pouches-Wallets The familiar words and imagesONE 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,