Every villain gets an origin story, but in the case of Thea, the wedding guest from hell in Helen Oyeyemi's newest novel, 'Parasol Against the Axe,' her own mother wrote it.
You might say Oyeyemi is a collector of stories that follow children, especially girls, into adulthood.
The book flashes back to Prague, in the nineteen-eighties, when Dagmar Dlouhá, Thea's mother, penned a series of popular children's books starring her daughter.
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