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The novel is a revisionist retelling of L. Frank Baum's Oz, seen through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion, an enigmatic figure known as Brrr. The story is set against a backdrop of looming civil war in Oz and explores themes of courage, identity, political opportunism, and what it means to be an "Animal" (a talking creature with civil rights) in a world where those rights are being eroded.

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