'DAZZLING' New York Times
'A SINGULARLY NAIL-BITING EXPERIENCE' Guardian
'STUNNING' Abi Dare, author of The Girl with the Louding Voice
All across the city, pregnant women are walking into water ...
Twenty-three-year-old Yosoye arrives in Lagos ready to start her life. Working for a slick architectural firm, she finds a city of adventure and opportunity. Her new world is one of fancy gallery openings, glamorous friends, and all the shiny potential of the future, encapsulated in projects like Omi City, the brand-new housing development her company is building.
But Yosoye's idyllic vision of Lagos soon begins to seem naïve, and its darker, stranger layers trouble her. Something is not right about Omi City, but no-one will give her satisfactory answers. And then, after a chance encounter in her first weeks in Lagos, Yosoye realizes that she is pregnant...
A vibrant and atmospheric evocation of modern Lagos, the promises of progress and the mysterious lure of the abyss, One Leg on Earth is a haunting and arresting story from an unmissable new voice in literature.
Genre: Horror
'A SINGULARLY NAIL-BITING EXPERIENCE' Guardian
'STUNNING' Abi Dare, author of The Girl with the Louding Voice
All across the city, pregnant women are walking into water ...
Twenty-three-year-old Yosoye arrives in Lagos ready to start her life. Working for a slick architectural firm, she finds a city of adventure and opportunity. Her new world is one of fancy gallery openings, glamorous friends, and all the shiny potential of the future, encapsulated in projects like Omi City, the brand-new housing development her company is building.
But Yosoye's idyllic vision of Lagos soon begins to seem naïve, and its darker, stranger layers trouble her. Something is not right about Omi City, but no-one will give her satisfactory answers. And then, after a chance encounter in her first weeks in Lagos, Yosoye realizes that she is pregnant...
A vibrant and atmospheric evocation of modern Lagos, the promises of progress and the mysterious lure of the abyss, One Leg on Earth is a haunting and arresting story from an unmissable new voice in literature.
Genre: Horror
Praise for this book
"A portrait of a woman, a city, and a shared moment in time, and a story about how it feels when the changes in life are intertwined with bigger, scarier changes in the world outside. One Leg on Earth gripped me from the first page." - Ramona Ausubel
"A stunning achievement. 'Pemi Aguda writes with luminous prose that feels both mystical and human. Brief and powerful, this conceptually daring novel haunted me long after I turned the last page." - Abi Daré
"Pemi Aguda is a daring writer like no other, with a voice that is unique and powerful. One Leg on Earth is a sharp, funny, bold, nuanced, and utterly absorbing debut I did not know I needed. I will read anything 'Pemi Aguda writes!" - Nicole Dennis-Benn
"A fearless work of fiction in the lineage of Toni Morrison's Sula. 'Pemi Aguda writes beautifully about the ways realities can break and why they sometimes should be shattered." - Megan Giddings
"One Leg on Earth is a haunting, beautiful novel, written with exquisite care. A kind of horror story about the cost of 'progress' for a city, for a culture, for a human soul. That horror is balanced by the potency of motherhood, its blessings and its trials. 'Pemi Aguda writes like she knows magic and, based on this book, I believe it." - Victor LaValle
"Suspenseful and immensely human, One Leg on Earth caught me in its wave and I happily, greedily tumbled along." - Gerardo Sámano Córdova
"Through intricate and sumptuous prose, 'Pemi Aguda introduces us to a Lagos we have never known before, skillfully rendering its colors and peering into its shadowed corners. Every carefully chosen word draws the reader further into an intrigue that is all at once political, personal, and otherworldly. One Leg on Earth is an enchantment." - Shannon Sanders
"A stunning achievement. 'Pemi Aguda writes with luminous prose that feels both mystical and human. Brief and powerful, this conceptually daring novel haunted me long after I turned the last page." - Abi Daré
"Pemi Aguda is a daring writer like no other, with a voice that is unique and powerful. One Leg on Earth is a sharp, funny, bold, nuanced, and utterly absorbing debut I did not know I needed. I will read anything 'Pemi Aguda writes!" - Nicole Dennis-Benn
"A fearless work of fiction in the lineage of Toni Morrison's Sula. 'Pemi Aguda writes beautifully about the ways realities can break and why they sometimes should be shattered." - Megan Giddings
"One Leg on Earth is a haunting, beautiful novel, written with exquisite care. A kind of horror story about the cost of 'progress' for a city, for a culture, for a human soul. That horror is balanced by the potency of motherhood, its blessings and its trials. 'Pemi Aguda writes like she knows magic and, based on this book, I believe it." - Victor LaValle
"Suspenseful and immensely human, One Leg on Earth caught me in its wave and I happily, greedily tumbled along." - Gerardo Sámano Córdova
"Through intricate and sumptuous prose, 'Pemi Aguda introduces us to a Lagos we have never known before, skillfully rendering its colors and peering into its shadowed corners. Every carefully chosen word draws the reader further into an intrigue that is all at once political, personal, and otherworldly. One Leg on Earth is an enchantment." - Shannon Sanders
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