One Leg On Earth – Pemi Aguda
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A powerful, lyrical and haunting literary debut. A coming-of-age novel set in modern Lagos, for readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Julia Armfield.
All across the city, pregnant women are walking into water . . . 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 brand-new housing development her company is building.
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, but no-one will give her satisfactory answers. And then, after a chance encounter in her first weeks in Lagos, Yosoye realizes that she is pregnant…
A vibrant and atmospheric evocation of modern Lagos, the promises of progress and the mysterious lure of the abyss, One Leg on Earth is a haunting and arresting story from an unmissable new voice in literature.
Awards
– ESQUIRE, BEST BOOKS OF 2026
Reviews
“A powerfully eerie portrait of Lagos … a virtuoso of dread and suspense, Aguda splices eco-horror, cosmic distress and ideas of the monstrous feminine into a singularly nail-biting experience” – Guardian
“Powerful, vividly written … a superb parable of loneliness, greed and desire, full of creeping dread” – Marie Claire
“Intricately layered, striking, powerful, dazzling, irresistibly strange” – New York Times
“Marvelous … a clear-eyed exploration of daughterhood, community, and the human costs of urban development, powered by an immersive portrait of a woman wrestling with the question of whom and what she’s willing to sacrifice for the life she wants. This is unforgettable” – Publishers Weekly
“Lyrical and lovely” – People Magazine
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Format: Paperback
Classifications: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN : 9780349018287
Published : 7 May 2026
Author : 'Pemi Aguda
Publisher : Little, Brown
Size : 214 x 134 x 19 (mm)
Weight : N/A
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