I've read enough Tutuola now that there is a repetitive familiarity with his style & the nature of the episodic situations in which his characters find themselves, which is fine as I enjoy both.
There's a throwaway bit of the strange on page one in which Ajaiya introduces herself, saying that her story happened 200 years ago when she came into the world through other parents as a boy & not a girl. This isn't alluded to again, but seemed to hang over the narrative as it unfolded, and just felt subtly subversive in a way I can't quite articulate. I love Tutuola's ability to put me slightly off balance. ( )