Hero Tojosoa is used to doing things she doesn’t really like. Honestly, it’s a wonder she has relationships at all since Hero gives such an impression that she’d rather be doing anything else than spend time with friends and family doing what they enjoy. In Parasol Against the Axe, Helen Oyeyemi’s latest metafictional exploration, Hero arrives in Prague for a hen weekend with an old friend. She shows up for spa visits and drinking, but she’d rather be in her hotel reading a book her son gave her...

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