Parasol Against the Axe: A Novel Motherhood Everything I Learned About Racism

Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School focuses on the experiences Black and Brown students face as a direct result of the racism built into schools across the United States

the community is shaken and divided

When you’re named after a 250-year-old tortoise

and high society balls―they also come closer together as friends

children's poetry

Parasol Against the Axe: A Novel Motherhood Everything I Learned About Racism"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 author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel