Ghostroots: Stories by Pemi Aguda Historical disasters lurk around every corner

disasters lurk around every corner and only a combination of human ingenuity and dragon might can fend them off

and distinctly original collection that demonstrates Key’s remarkable literary gifts—a skill at crafting science fiction stories equaled by an ability to sculpt characters and narrative—as well as his utterly fresh take on how genre can be used to delight

Seanan McGuire

utterly engrossed in the heart-pounding odyssey of Dawit

she’ll have to decide: if she can only bring one story to light

Ghostroots: Stories by Pemi Aguda Historical disasters lurk around every cornerA debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties. In this beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, Pemi Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning to be individuals and the ways we are haunted by what came before. In Manifest, a woman sees the ghost of her abusive mother in her daughters face. Shortly after, the daughter is overtaken by