Description:
Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction
Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award
A Time, Vulture, and Elle Best Book of the Year
"A marvelously unsettling collection where the everyday strangeness of life and the uncanny rub up against each other." --Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love
A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties
Brief description: 'Pemi Aguda is the author of One Leg on Earth and Ghostroots, a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Trained as an architect in Lagos, Nigeria, she lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Review Quotes: Haunted and blazingly original.-- "Poets & Writers"