“Ghostroots is a thrilling work by a truly sublime and imaginative writer. 'Pemi Aguda’s stories are both absorbing and terrifying in the most delightful and addictive way, you’ll find it hard to tear yourself away from the pages. This is the beginning of an incredible writing career we are blessed to witness”
—Ore Agbaje-Williams, author of The Three of Us
“Beautifully strange and delightfully unexpected, each story is a tiny wonder. I'm desperate to read more from ‘Pemi Aguda”
—Kirsty Logan, author of The Unfamiliar
“'Pemi Aguda is an astonishing talent. She’s inventive with form and playful with sentences. In Ghostroots, the delightful speculative conceits of the stories are elegantly, even architecturally, balanced with the gorgeous fullness of human emotion, all the hunger and longing and fear and delight of being a human being in the world. A wonderful collection from a truly gifted writer.”
—Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds
“Here you'll find breathtaking stories of the familiar and the strange, full of empathy for
characters trying to bridge chasms between communities, families, generations, and their ghosts. 'Pemi Aguda builds worlds with blade-like acuity. You'll be caught in their sway and transported.”
—Diane Cook, author of The New Wilderness
“In this perceptive and astute collection, Pemi Aguda tells of the metaphysical cracks on the
surface of contemporary Nigerian society with an uncompromising humane touch.”
—Emmanuel Iduma, author of I Am Still With You
“A marvelously unsettling collection where the everyday strangeness of life and the uncanny rub up against each other to create real fire.”
—Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dog
“’Pemi Aguda is spectacular. This book is a big, strong river. Once you are caught in its currents, you flow with it no matter where it runs. And it runs through gorgeous and startling places.”
—Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Good Night, Irene
“Ghostroots is the kind of collection you dream of discovering and reading—from one of my favorite living writers.”
—Jeff VanderMeer, author of Hummingbird Salamander
“’Pemi Aguda's Ghost Roots is a treasure chest of surprises sometimes scary, sometimes funny, always darkly familiar. With unadorned prose and crisp, delicious sentences, she invites us to the dark underside of everyday life and dares us to look away. The stories in this book leap off the pages to bite at you long after you drop it, if you can.”
—T.J Benson, author of The Madhouse
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