One leg on earth a novel
"From the author of the National Book Award finalist Ghostroots, a debut novel that thrills with its eerie mix of folklore and history. 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 read...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2026]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "From the author of the National Book Award finalist Ghostroots, a debut novel that thrills with its eerie mix of folklore and history. 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 inexlicable 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: an uncanny exploration of motherhood and a chilling vision of the dark side of progress."--Book jacket flap. |
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| Physical Description: | 220 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781324065876 1324065877 |
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