Monday, May 4 at 6:00 PM
Join us to celebrate the publication of 'Pemi's debut novel -- an eerie mix of folklore and history -- about a young woman who arrives in Lagos, Nigeria and finds that something is haunting pregnant women across the city, who are walking into water ... and drowning.
A book signing and reception with Nigerian refreshments will follow the program. Copies of the book will be available for purchase from Barnes & Noble.
PAY WHAT YOU WISH. (Please, add an amount when you check out. $10 suggested ticket price.) Advance registration required.
‘Pemi Aguda is the author of ONE LEG ON EARTH and GHOSTROOTS, a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Her short stories have won O. Henry Prizes, a Nommo Award for Short Story, a Henfield Prize, and the Writivism Prize. Her work has been supported by an Octavia Butler Memorial Scholarship, and her novel-in-progress won the 2020 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award. She was a 2021 Fiction Fellow with the Miami Book Fair, a 2022 MacDowell fellow, and is the current Hortense Spillers Assistant Editor at Transition Magazine. Trained as an architect in Lagos, Nigeria, she lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
'Pemi will be in conversation with Nicole Dennis-Benn, the author of HERE COMES THE SUN, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a 2017 Lambda Literary Award winner. Her bestselling sophomore novel, PATSY, is a 2020 Lambda Literary Award winner, a New York Times Editors' Choice, a Financial Times Critics Choice, a Stonewall Book Awards Honor Book, and a Today Show Read With Jenna Book Club selection.
This is a free event.
