Press Reviews

• Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Good Night, Irene

  'Pemi Aguda is spectacular. This book is a big, strong river. Once you are caught in its currents, you flow with it no matter where it runs. And it runs through gorgeous and startling places

• Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds

  'Pemi Aguda is an astonishing talent. She's inventive with form and playful with sentences. In Ghostroots, the delightful speculative conceits of the stories are elegantly, even architecturally, balanced with the gorgeous fullness of human emotion, all the hunger and longing and fear and delight of being a human being in the world. A wonderful collection from a truly gifted writer

• Jeff VanderMeer, author of Hummingbird Salamander

  Ghostroots is the kind of collection you dream of discovering and reading - from one of my favorite living writers

• Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dog

  A marvellously unsettling collection where the everyday strangeness of life and the uncanny rub up against each other to create real fire

• Emmanuel Iduma, author of I Am Still With You

  In this perceptive and astute collection, 'Pemi Aguda tells of the metaphysical cracks on the surface of contemporary Nigerian society with an uncompromising humane touch

• Diane Cook, author of The New Wilderness

  Here you'll find breathtaking stories of the familiar and the strange, full of empathy for characters trying to bridge chasms between communities, families, generations, and their ghosts. 'Pemi Aguda builds worlds with blade-like acuity. You'll be caught in their sway and transported.

• Clare Beams, author of The Garden

  I loved everything about this book, which heralds a major and extraordinary new voice in fiction. 'Pemi Aguda knows where the real magic is, and she gives it all its gorgeousness, all its teeth. These stories consumed me. I'll be thinking about them for years to come

• Tananarive Due, author of The Reformatory

  Ghostroots is a triumph! The author's strong storytelling skills give readers the gift of realistic characters and darkly imaginative stories that creep under your skin and stay buried there. Disturbing, enthralling and unforgettable. 'Pemi Aguda is now among my favourites.

• Lesley Nneka Arimah, author of What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky

  Where to even start? This is one of the finest collections I have read. Inventive, cunning, original, and all conveyed with impeccable prose. And what a voice, what a unique vision. These stories read like only 'Pemi Aguda could have written them, with her distinct style and an unshakable sensibility evident in every sly turn of story, taking the narrative in perfect, unpredictable directions. Nothing short of phenomenal

• Kirsty Logan, author of The Unfamiliar

  Beautifully strange and delightfully unexpected, each story is a tiny wonder. I'm desperate to read more from 'Pemi Aguda

• Ore Agbaje-Williams, author of The Three of Us

  A thrilling work by a truly sublime and imaginative writer. 'Pemi Aguda's stories are both absorbing and terrifying in the most delightful and addictive way ... you'll find it hard to tear yourself away from the pages

• Library Journal

  The 12 thought-provoking speculative stories, featuring mostly women protagonists, a strong narrative voice, and a focus on the unsettling results of generational divides, lay bare the universal human experience, illuminating the menace that constantly lurks just below the surface ... Aguda's excellent story collection deserves a wide audience