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Availability:Out of StockContributor:'Pemi AgudaTheme:Cultural Region/African, Cultural Region/West Africa, Demographic Orientation/UrbanPublish date:2024-05-07Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9781324065852ISBN-10:1324065850UPC:9781324065852Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Occult & Supernatural, City LifeAward:2025 ALA Notable Books Winner - Fiction AwardSize:8.40 x 5.60 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.318Product ID:SCPPRE0TSE

In this beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, 'Pemi Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning to be individuals and the ways we are haunted by what came before.

In "Manifest," a woman sees the ghost of her abusive mother in her daughter's face. Shortly after, the daughter is overtaken by wicked and destructive impulses. In "Breastmilk," a wife forgives her husband for his infidelity. Months later, when she is unable to produce milk for her newborn, she blames herself for failing to uphold her mother's feminist values and doubts her fitness for motherhood. In "Things Boys Do," a trio of fathers finds something unnatural and unnerving about their infant sons. As their lives rapidly fall to pieces, they begin to fear that their sons are the cause of their troubles. And in "24, Alhaji Williams Street," a teenage boy lives in the shadow of a mysterious disease that's killing the boys on his street.

These and other stories in Ghostroots map emotional and physical worlds that lay bare the forces of family, myth, tradition, gender, and modernity in Nigerian society. Powered by a deep empathy and glinting with humor, they announce a major new literary talent.

Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9781324065852ISBN-10:1324065850UPC:9781324065852Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Occult & Supernatural, City LifeAward:2025 ALA Notable Books Winner - Fiction AwardSize:8.40 x 5.60 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.318Product ID:SCPPRE0TSE
Aguda, 'Pemi: - '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.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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🏆 2025 ALA Notable Books Winner - Fiction Award

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'Pemi Aguda

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