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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Spider and the Fool: The Spider and The Fool Where Laughter Becomes a Crime

The Spider and the Fool: The Spider and The Fool Where Laughter Becomes a Crime

Koiwood, Alfred

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Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction

ISBN13: 9798243449687
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 16 2026
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In a small West African village where grief, marriage, trade, and judgment each have their prescribed rituals, one man refuses to play along. Known only as the Fool, he laughs at funerals, questions priests, unsettles weddings, and exposes the silent hypocrisies woven into everyday life.

When a confrontation in the market leaves a man dead, the Fool becomes the village's unwanted mirror. Hauled before elders and a colonial magistrate, condemned to hang, he is left alone in a dirt-floored cell with only a spider in the rafters-a creature whose quiet, relentless weaving reveals a truth deeper than any sermon or trial.

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