Tuesday, May 7 at 6:00 PM
’Pemi Aguda will be in conversation with Gerardo Sámano Córdova, author of Monstrilio, to celebrate the launch of Ghostroots, Aguda’s debut collection.
Ghostroots is a collection of twelve short stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties. Exploring the dark borders between psychology and superstition, the stories in Ghostroots map emotional and physical worlds that lay bare the forces of family, faith, myth, tradition, gender, and modernity in Nigerian society.
Book signing to follow.
’Pemi Aguda is an MFA graduate from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Her writing has been published in Granta, Ploughshares, Zoetrope, and other publications, and has been awarded the O. Henry Prize for short fiction. She is from Lagos, Nigeria.
