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Ghostroots

by Pemi Aguda

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction · 2025 · ShortlistNational Book Award for Fiction · 2024 · Shortlist
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Award History

AwardYearStatus
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction2025Shortlist
National Book Award for FictionFiction2024Shortlist

About This Book

A debut story collection of eleven stories set between Nigeria and the diaspora, blending the supernatural with acute social observation. A voice in the tradition of Nnedi Okofor and Helen Oyeyemi, exploring what it means to be Nigerian in a globalised world.

About the Author

Pemi AgudaNigerian-American

Pemi Aguda is a Nigerian-American short story writer whose debut collection Ghostroots (2024) was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. The collection blends supernatural elements with acute social observation in stories set between Nigeria and the Nigerian diaspora. Aguda has an MFA from the University of Michigan and has had her work published in Ploughshares, Zoetrope, and other literary journals.

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