Ghostroots: StoriesIncludes 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

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A man drives into a fog bank and is unsure how to get home

This is his second sojourn in the city

including artworks never before seen outside of Studio Ghibli’s archives

as he explicitly addresses the racial politics of the sixties in such pieces as "Prime

Type history is often technical and always visual

contains textual variants

The evening sun goes down

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A captivating experimental novel about the Italian Renaissance by the Danish master

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the inner landscape of Barthelme’s characters is one of underlying tension arising from the seemingly mundane