Overview

Something is haunting the pregnant women of Lagos. Across the city, they are walking into water . . . and drowning. Twenty-three-year-old Yosoye arrives in Lagos ready to start her life. Working for a slick architectural firm, she finds a city of adventure and opportunity. Her new world is one of fancy gallery openings, glamorous friends, and all the shiny potential of the future, encapsulated in projects like Omi City, the ultra-luxury development her company is building, a symbol of the dawn of a brighter Lagos. But Yosoye’s idyllic vision of Lagos soon begins to seem naive, and its darker, stranger layers trouble her. Something is not right about Omi City, and as construction speeds ahead, stories of strange deaths in the city’s open waters reach a fever pitch. And then, after a chance encounter, Yosoye discovers she is pregnant . . . a revelation which puts her on a collision course with an inexplicable force that is as seductive as it is deadly. A masterwork by a writer hailed as “an astonishing talent” (Lauren Groff), One Leg on Earth is an ambitious novel like no other: a coming-of-age story, an uncanny exploration of motherhood, and a chilling vision of the dark side of progress.

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""A fearless work of fiction in the lineage of Toni Morrison’s Sula. 'Pemi Aguda writes beautifully about the ways realities can break and why sometimes they should be shattered."" -- Megan Giddings, author of Meet Me at the Crossroads ""A portrait of a woman, a city, and a shared moment in time, and a story about how it feels when the changes in life are intertwined with bigger, scarier changes in the world outside. One Leg on Earth gripped me from the first page."" -- Ramona Ausubel, author of The Last Animal ""Breathtaking! ... Deliciously suspenseful and immensely human One Leg on Earth caught me in its wave and I happily, greedily, tumbled along."" -- Gerardo Sámano Córdova, author of Monstrillo

""A fearless work of fiction in the lineage of Toni Morrison’s Sula. 'Pemi Aguda writes beautifully about the ways realities can break and why sometimes they should be shattered."" -- Megan Giddings, author of Meet Me at the Crossroads ""A portrait of a woman, a city, and a shared moment in time, and a story about how it feels when the changes in life are intertwined with bigger, scarier changes in the world outside. One Leg on Earth gripped me from the first page."" -- Ramona Ausubel, author of The Last Animal

Author Information

’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. Trained as an architect in Lagos, Nigeria, she lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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