Ghostroots
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Includes the Story "Breastmilk," Shortlisted for the 2024 Caine Prize for African Writing
A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties
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 daughters 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 mothers 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 thats 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.
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What's inside
What's inside
The kind of book you won't want to put down.
✓ A first page that hooks you and never lets go
✓ Characters you'll miss like real friends when it's over
✓ A world so real you won't want to come back from it
✓ That "just one more chapter" pull at 2am
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Shipping & Delivery
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Specifications
Specifications
Language: English
Category: Fiction
Format: Print edition
Condition: Brand new, original copy
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