My favorite nonfiction collection of the year, Magic Realism by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, and my favorite short story collection of the year, Ghostroots by 'Pemi Aguda. Just stellar, amazing work.
May 11, 2024 at 2:20 PM
My favorite nonfiction collection of the year, Magic Realism by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, and my favorite short story collection of the year, Ghostroots by 'Pemi Aguda. Just stellar, amazing work.
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Here's my latest review for Locus Magazine in which I take a look at Pemi Aguda's GHOSTROOTS.
Spoiler Alert: Its excellent.
locusmag.com/2024/07/wole...
Spoiler Alert: Its excellent.
locusmag.com/2024/07/wole...
Wole Talabi Reviews Ghostroots by ’Pemi Aguda
Ghostroots, ’Pemi Aguda (W.W. Norton & Company 978-1-324-06585-2, $26.99, 224pp, hc) May 2024. Ghostroots, ’Pemi Aguda’s spectacular debut collection, is an instant classic. These 12 stories f…
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July 26, 2024 at 3:34 AM
Here's my latest review for Locus Magazine in which I take a look at Pemi Aguda's GHOSTROOTS.
Spoiler Alert: Its excellent.
locusmag.com/2024/07/wole...
Spoiler Alert: Its excellent.
locusmag.com/2024/07/wole...
NBCC member Delight Ejiaka reviewed Pemi Aguda’s "Ghostroots" for World Literature Today:
Ghostroots: Stories by Pemi Aguda
W. W. Norton. 2024. 272 pages.
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December 28, 2024 at 2:46 AM
NBCC member Delight Ejiaka reviewed Pemi Aguda’s "Ghostroots" for World Literature Today:
I loved GHOSTROOTS and tried to get at the special fascination I have for collections of stories that are sometimes horror and sometimes not
Hauntings Real and Unreal: @megapolisomancy.bsky.social reviews 'Pemi Aguda's GHOSTROOTS (@wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social)
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/08/14/h...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/08/14/h...
Hauntings Real and Unreal: Review of ‘Pemi Aguda’s Ghostroots
Zachary Gillan Under Review:Ghostroots: Stories. ‘Pemi Aguda. W.W. Norton & Company, May 2024. It’s a cruel irony of life that the worst way to read a horror story is with the knowledge that you’re ab...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
August 15, 2024 at 12:45 AM
I loved GHOSTROOTS and tried to get at the special fascination I have for collections of stories that are sometimes horror and sometimes not
Loved Green Frog, Ghostroots and Mouth. Astonishing debuts and must read collections.
If you ever re-Sky one of my Blues, this is it!
THE BEST DEBUT BOOKS OF 2024
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THE BEST DEBUT BOOKS OF 2024
Click this link 👉 debutiful.net/2024/11/18/t...
November 18, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Loved Green Frog, Ghostroots and Mouth. Astonishing debuts and must read collections.
got five library books out today
November 7, 2024 at 8:39 PM
got five library books out today
Reading an ARC of 'Pemi Aguda's collection GHOSTROOTS and three stories in I am completely hooked. Beautiful, unsettling, deep. Out in May from W.W. Norton:
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Ghostroots
<strong>A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties.</strong>, Ghostroots, Stories, 'Pemi Aguda, 9781324065852
wwnorton.com
February 17, 2024 at 3:51 AM
Reading an ARC of 'Pemi Aguda's collection GHOSTROOTS and three stories in I am completely hooked. Beautiful, unsettling, deep. Out in May from W.W. Norton:
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
THE FINALISTS FOR THE 2025 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD!
Ghostroots by ’Pemi Aguda (W. W. Norton & Company)
Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj (Harpervia)
James by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Small Rain by Garth Greenwell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Colored Television by Danzy Senna (Riverhead)
Ghostroots by ’Pemi Aguda (W. W. Norton & Company)
Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj (Harpervia)
James by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Small Rain by Garth Greenwell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Colored Television by Danzy Senna (Riverhead)
March 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
THE FINALISTS FOR THE 2025 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD!
Ghostroots by ’Pemi Aguda (W. W. Norton & Company)
Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj (Harpervia)
James by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Small Rain by Garth Greenwell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Colored Television by Danzy Senna (Riverhead)
Ghostroots by ’Pemi Aguda (W. W. Norton & Company)
Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj (Harpervia)
James by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Small Rain by Garth Greenwell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Colored Television by Danzy Senna (Riverhead)
tiktok tentando me convencer a fazer ghostroots no meu cabelo
October 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
tiktok tentando me convencer a fazer ghostroots no meu cabelo
Але ось ці красуні вже на полицях, уявіть. А ghostroots наполовину прочитана збірка оповідань про Лаґос
February 4, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Але ось ці красуні вже на полицях, уявіть. А ghostroots наполовину прочитана збірка оповідань про Лаґос
And for international women’s day here are some collections of weird fiction by women that I’ve read and think you should read
March 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
And for international women’s day here are some collections of weird fiction by women that I’ve read and think you should read
Book I finished/book I started
May 21, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Book I finished/book I started
“GHOSTROOTS is an elegantly constructed, breathtakingly beautiful, numinous collection of stories that present emotional blueprints of the Lagosian soul as a way of investigating the larger human condition.” @WTalabi reviews new work from @PemiAguda locusmag.com/2024/07...
Wole Talabi Reviews Ghostroots by ’Pemi Aguda
Ghostroots, ’Pemi Aguda (W.W. Norton & Company 978-1-324-06585-2, $26.99, 224pp, hc) May 2024. Ghostroots, ’Pemi Aguda’s spectacular debut collection, is an instant classic. These 12 stories f…
locusmag.com
July 26, 2024 at 10:00 PM
“GHOSTROOTS is an elegantly constructed, breathtakingly beautiful, numinous collection of stories that present emotional blueprints of the Lagosian soul as a way of investigating the larger human condition.” @WTalabi reviews new work from @PemiAguda locusmag.com/2024/07...
nearly done with my grad school reading assignments, wherein i have managed to sneak in reading 'pemi aguda's ghostroots and tony tulathimutte's rejection in my subway riding moments. next up an arc of enter the peerless by @bleakhousing.bsky.social forthcoming from @frombeyondpress.bsky.social .
April 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
nearly done with my grad school reading assignments, wherein i have managed to sneak in reading 'pemi aguda's ghostroots and tony tulathimutte's rejection in my subway riding moments. next up an arc of enter the peerless by @bleakhousing.bsky.social forthcoming from @frombeyondpress.bsky.social .
Ghostroots by ’Pemi Aguda is a supernatural selection of stories set against everyday life in the Nigerian capital.
Ghostroots by ’Pemi Aguda review – visionary stories to soothe and haunt you
www.bigissue.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Ghostroots by ’Pemi Aguda is a supernatural selection of stories set against everyday life in the Nigerian capital.
Russell Hoban The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
朱天心『古都』
Pemi Aguda Ghostroots
崎原風子『崎原風子句集』
伊良子清白『孔雀船』
橋本真理『幽明婚』
朝吹亮二『密室論』
山本陽子『山本陽子全集』第二巻
山尾悠子「黒金」
ホルヘ・ルイス・ボルヘス「王宮の寓話」
時里二郎『名井島』
小松理虔『新復興論』
朱天心『古都』
Pemi Aguda Ghostroots
崎原風子『崎原風子句集』
伊良子清白『孔雀船』
橋本真理『幽明婚』
朝吹亮二『密室論』
山本陽子『山本陽子全集』第二巻
山尾悠子「黒金」
ホルヘ・ルイス・ボルヘス「王宮の寓話」
時里二郎『名井島』
小松理虔『新復興論』
June 5, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Russell Hoban The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
朱天心『古都』
Pemi Aguda Ghostroots
崎原風子『崎原風子句集』
伊良子清白『孔雀船』
橋本真理『幽明婚』
朝吹亮二『密室論』
山本陽子『山本陽子全集』第二巻
山尾悠子「黒金」
ホルヘ・ルイス・ボルヘス「王宮の寓話」
時里二郎『名井島』
小松理虔『新復興論』
朱天心『古都』
Pemi Aguda Ghostroots
崎原風子『崎原風子句集』
伊良子清白『孔雀船』
橋本真理『幽明婚』
朝吹亮二『密室論』
山本陽子『山本陽子全集』第二巻
山尾悠子「黒金」
ホルヘ・ルイス・ボルヘス「王宮の寓話」
時里二郎『名井島』
小松理虔『新復興論』
We are so lucky to have 'Pemi Aguda author of GHOSTROOTS and ONE LEG ON EARTH as our keynote speaker for @storystudiochicago.bsky.social's StoryBoard fest this year. I’ll be in conversation with her at the gorgeous Driehaus Museum in downtown Chicago (Near North Side) 🧵
July 21, 2026 at 9:02 PM
We are so lucky to have 'Pemi Aguda author of GHOSTROOTS and ONE LEG ON EARTH as our keynote speaker for @storystudiochicago.bsky.social's StoryBoard fest this year. I’ll be in conversation with her at the gorgeous Driehaus Museum in downtown Chicago (Near North Side) 🧵
Finalists for Fiction:
Pemi Aguda, Ghostroots
Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!
Percival Everett, James
Miranda July, All Fours
Hisham Matar, My Friends
Finalists for Poetry:
Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
Fady Joudah, […]
m.s. RedCherries, mother
Diane Seuss, Modern Poetry
@lenakt.bsky.social, Something About Living
Pemi Aguda, Ghostroots
Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!
Percival Everett, James
Miranda July, All Fours
Hisham Matar, My Friends
Finalists for Poetry:
Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
Fady Joudah, […]
m.s. RedCherries, mother
Diane Seuss, Modern Poetry
@lenakt.bsky.social, Something About Living
The National Book Awards list of finalists is out: 😃 📚 www.nationalbook.org/2024-nationa...
2024 National Book Awards Finalists Announced
Twenty-five Finalists to contend for National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature
www.nationalbook.org
October 1, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Finalists for Fiction:
Pemi Aguda, Ghostroots
Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!
Percival Everett, James
Miranda July, All Fours
Hisham Matar, My Friends
Finalists for Poetry:
Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
Fady Joudah, […]
m.s. RedCherries, mother
Diane Seuss, Modern Poetry
@lenakt.bsky.social, Something About Living
Pemi Aguda, Ghostroots
Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!
Percival Everett, James
Miranda July, All Fours
Hisham Matar, My Friends
Finalists for Poetry:
Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
Fady Joudah, […]
m.s. RedCherries, mother
Diane Seuss, Modern Poetry
@lenakt.bsky.social, Something About Living
Congratulations to GHOSTROOTS author 'Pemi Aguda and ORWELL'S GHOST author Laura Beers (@fieryparticle.bsky.social) a on becoming @latimes.com Book Prize finalists!
GHOSTROOTS is a finalist for The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and ORWELL'S GHOST is a finalist for the Biography award.
GHOSTROOTS is a finalist for The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and ORWELL'S GHOST is a finalist for the Biography award.
February 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Congratulations to GHOSTROOTS author 'Pemi Aguda and ORWELL'S GHOST author Laura Beers (@fieryparticle.bsky.social) a on becoming @latimes.com Book Prize finalists!
GHOSTROOTS is a finalist for The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and ORWELL'S GHOST is a finalist for the Biography award.
GHOSTROOTS is a finalist for The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and ORWELL'S GHOST is a finalist for the Biography award.
infrequently you encounter a collection so profound that reading it does not feel like reading, but rather fiending for the pathos-intoxicating high of it. last time i encountered this was with Ballingrud's North American Lake Monsters. this time it is @pemiaguda.bsky.social 's Ghostroots. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.
March 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
infrequently you encounter a collection so profound that reading it does not feel like reading, but rather fiending for the pathos-intoxicating high of it. last time i encountered this was with Ballingrud's North American Lake Monsters. this time it is @pemiaguda.bsky.social 's Ghostroots. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.
Hauntings Real and Unreal: @megapolisomancy.bsky.social reviews 'Pemi Aguda's GHOSTROOTS (@wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social)
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/08/14/h...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/08/14/h...
Hauntings Real and Unreal: Review of ‘Pemi Aguda’s Ghostroots
Zachary Gillan Under Review:Ghostroots: Stories. ‘Pemi Aguda. W.W. Norton & Company, May 2024. It’s a cruel irony of life that the worst way to read a horror story is with the knowledge that you’re ab...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
August 14, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Hauntings Real and Unreal: @megapolisomancy.bsky.social reviews 'Pemi Aguda's GHOSTROOTS (@wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social)
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/08/14/h...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/08/14/h...
Book 4 for 2025: National Book Award finalist Ghostroots by @pemiaguda.bsky.social — fabulous book of short stories that take place in modern day Lagos #BookSky #Fiction #ShortStories
www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
Ghostroots: Stories
A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reima…
www.goodreads.com
January 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Book 4 for 2025: National Book Award finalist Ghostroots by @pemiaguda.bsky.social — fabulous book of short stories that take place in modern day Lagos #BookSky #Fiction #ShortStories
www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
‘Pemi Aguda’s collection Ghostroots is on the National Book Award longlist; it’s one of my favorite new books this year and I dug into why @ancillaryreview.bsky.social ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/08/14/h...
Hauntings Real and Unreal: Review of ‘Pemi Aguda’s Ghostroots
Zachary Gillan Under Review:Ghostroots: Stories. ‘Pemi Aguda. W.W. Norton & Company, May 2024. It’s a cruel irony of life that the worst way to read a horror story is with the knowledge that you’re ab...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
September 15, 2024 at 10:35 PM
‘Pemi Aguda’s collection Ghostroots is on the National Book Award longlist; it’s one of my favorite new books this year and I dug into why @ancillaryreview.bsky.social ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/08/14/h...