Little Rot

“Drama, mystery, beautiful clothes, expensive cars, explosive sex…Emezi takes readers to an abyss from which there is no escape.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“Emezi unspools a web of erotic danger in their entertaining latest...readers in search of a decadent good time will find it here.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Multimedia polymath and gender-norm disrupter Emezi. . . examines taboo and trauma in their creative work...Emezi can be counted upon for an ambience of dread and a feverish momentum.”

—The Millions

“A masterwork…mesmerizing…We come away troubled, unsettled—and in some subtle way changed.”

—The New York Times Book Review

“A gritty yet hypnotic novel about a web of loosely connected friends grappling with hidden desires in Lagos. . . Emezi portrays the African city as a corrupting force—but only because falling from grace is so painfully, exquisitely human.”

—Minneapolis Star-Tribune

“[H]as the dark twists and pace of a thriller, the ambitious scope of literary fiction, the language of poetry and the yearning of romance…[T]he blend of melodrama, peril and existential angst in Little Rot is shockingly entertaining and beautifully wrought.”

—Los Angeles Times

“Step into the dark side of Nigerian high society in this sexy, thrilling novel...the perfect steamy read for those hot summer nights.”

—People Magazine

“Little Rot hurtles toward devastation, but even as you anticipate the horrors ahead, the escapist thriller-style pacing will keep you pushing on.”

—BookPage

"Emezi is a genius, IMHO. . . Super queer, disturbing and unflinching, Emezi’s latest will leave you uncomfortably questioning morality, power, sex and, well, humanity as a whole.”

—Ms Magazine

“Prolific and brilliant multigenre Nigerian author Akwaeke Emezi is back with a novel chronicling the end of a relationship and a sex party that throws its characters into chaos. Read everything Emezi writes!”

—Autostraddle