Ghostroots

'Pemi Aguda

earliest edition we have, 2024 Virago, 2024 paperback 224 pages

The Lagos of these twelve sinister and beguiling stories is multi-faceted, peopled by Pentecostal Christians and exasperated atheists; by tight-knit extended families and struggling single fathers. Here are characters cursed by guilt, bound by the ties of ancestors and community; or enchanted by the allure of mysticism and would-be prophets. There are gossips and party girls - and a schoolboy followed home by a group...

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Ghostroots edition · 2025 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 224 pages · 9780349018249
Ghostroots hardcover · 2024 · Virago · 224 pages · 9780349018225
Ghostroots hardcover · 2024 · W. W. Norton & Company · 224 pages · 9781324065852
Ghostroots ebook · 2024 · W. W. Norton & Company · 224 pages · 9781324065869
Ghostroots paperback · 2024 · Virago · 224 pages · 9780349018232

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