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Cross into Lagos. Discover Omi City. Don’t expect to leave unchanged.

Out now in the UK, One Leg On Earth by 'Pemi Aguda is a haunting and arresting story about the promises of progress and the mysterious lure of the abyss.

Twenty-three-year-old Yosoye arrives in Lagos ready to start her life. She starts working on an exciting new project, Omi City, the brand-new housing development her company is building.

But Yosoye's idyllic vision of Lagos soon begins to seem naïve, and its darker, stranger layers trouble her. Something is not right about Omi City, but no-one will give her a real answer...

In the coming weeks, I will be on trains and planes, hoping to see some of your faces on the other side. I can't wait to talk to these badass thinkers and writers in these lovely bookstores and libraries! Come hang~ #OneLegOnEarth 🌊

Ghostroots is out in paperback today (in the US). So much has changed--taken and given--in the two years since it arrived, but I'm thankful for all the people and places and experiences it's led me to, and back to, and I promise that I'm still delightfully surprised that anyone's reading. Thank you for reading. 🐐🩸

Ghostroots is out in paperback today (in the US). So much has changed--taken and given--in the two years since it arrived, but I'm thankful for all the people and places and experiences it's led me to, and back to, and I promise that I'm still delightfully surprised that anyone's reading. Thank you for reading. 🐐🩸

Ghostroots is out in paperback today (in the US). So much has changed--taken and given--in the two years since it arrived, but I'm thankful for all the people and places and experiences it's led me to, and back to, and I promise that I'm still delightfully surprised that anyone's reading. Thank you for reading. 🐐🩸

Ghostroots is out in paperback today (in the US). So much has changed--taken and given--in the two years since it arrived, but I'm thankful for all the people and places and experiences it's led me to, and back to, and I promise that I'm still delightfully surprised that anyone's reading. Thank you for reading. 🐐🩸

Ghostroots is out in paperback today (in the US). So much has changed--taken and given--in the two years since it arrived, but I'm thankful for all the people and places and experiences it's led me to, and back to, and I promise that I'm still delightfully surprised that anyone's reading. Thank you for reading. 🐐🩸

Ghostroots is out in paperback today (in the US). So much has changed--taken and given--in the two years since it arrived, but I'm thankful for all the people and places and experiences it's led me to, and back to, and I promise that I'm still delightfully surprised that anyone's reading. Thank you for reading. 🐐🩸

Ghostroots is out in paperback today (in the US). So much has changed--taken and given--in the two years since it arrived, but I'm thankful for all the people and places and experiences it's led me to, and back to, and I promise that I'm still delightfully surprised that anyone's reading. Thank you for reading. 🐐🩸

COVER REVEAL

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 naïve, 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.

ONE LEG ON EARTH is coming to bookstores on 17th June 2026

Cover illustration by @bunmiagusto
#MasobeBooks #ForthcomingTitles #MasobeAuthors #LetUsRead

It's such an honour to have the art of The @calidagarciarawles gracing the US cover of One Leg on Earth! And lots of love to Sarahmay Wilkinson for the cover design.

This story started with me thinking about the vengeance and power of water. Then, Yosoye showed up—this wanting, lonely girl. The years I spent getting to know her have been challenging and filling. Yes, this is a Lagos book. Of course, there's strangeness here. This one is about the city and its dance with water, about belonging, and this slippery thing called the future.

I hope you'll keep an eye out for my first novel (gahhh) come May 5. Better yet, pre-order at wwnorton.com — a treat for your future self? Thanks to my team, always, and to you for coming along on this ride!

#OneLegOnEarth

It's such an honour to have the art of The @calidagarciarawles gracing the US cover of One Leg on Earth! And lots of love to Sarahmay Wilkinson for the cover design.

This story started with me thinking about the vengeance and power of water. Then, Yosoye showed up—this wanting, lonely girl. The years I spent getting to know her have been challenging and filling. Yes, this is a Lagos book. Of course, there's strangeness here. This one is about the city and its dance with water, about belonging, and this slippery thing called the future.

I hope you'll keep an eye out for my first novel (gahhh) come May 5. Better yet, pre-order at wwnorton.com — a treat for your future self? Thanks to my team, always, and to you for coming along on this ride!

#OneLegOnEarth

All across the city, pregnant women are walking into water . . .

☀️ 'An astonishing talent' Lauren Groff

☀️ 'Gripped me from the first page' Ramona Ausubel

☀️ 'One of my favourite living writers' Jeff VanderMeer

Yosoye arrives in Lagos ready to start her life. Working for a slick architectural firm, 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 naïve, and its darker, stranger layers trouble her. Something is not right about Omi City, but no-one will give her satisfactory answers.

From the prize-winning author of the collection of literary horror stories Ghostroots, One Leg on Earth is a vivid and mesmerising story about modern Lagos and the darkness that swirls beneath it.

#OneLegOnEarth by 'Pemi Aguda is coming May 2026!

I've been enjoying feeling small 🖼️

I've been enjoying feeling small 🖼️

I've been enjoying feeling small 🖼️

I've been enjoying feeling small 🖼️

I've been enjoying feeling small 🖼️

I've been enjoying feeling small 🖼️

I've been enjoying feeling small 🖼️

I've been enjoying feeling small 🖼️

I've been enjoying feeling small 🖼️

I've been enjoying feeling small 🖼️

I've been enjoying feeling small 🖼️

I've been enjoying feeling small 🖼️

I've been enjoying feeling small 🖼️

I've been enjoying feeling small 🖼️

I've been enjoying feeling small 🖼️

I've been enjoying feeling small 🖼️

I've been enjoying feeling small 🖼️

I've been enjoying feeling small 🖼️

recently: some flowers, some hands, some glam, some tears, some poets, some grass, some loves

recently: some flowers, some hands, some glam, some tears, some poets, some grass, some loves

recently: some flowers, some hands, some glam, some tears, some poets, some grass, some loves

recently: some flowers, some hands, some glam, some tears, some poets, some grass, some loves

recently: some flowers, some hands, some glam, some tears, some poets, some grass, some loves

recently: some flowers, some hands, some glam, some tears, some poets, some grass, some loves

recently: some flowers, some hands, some glam, some tears, some poets, some grass, some loves

recently: some flowers, some hands, some glam, some tears, some poets, some grass, some loves

recently: some flowers, some hands, some glam, some tears, some poets, some grass, some loves

recently: some flowers, some hands, some glam, some tears, some poets, some grass, some loves

recently: some flowers, some hands, some glam, some tears, some poets, some grass, some loves

recently: some flowers, some hands, some glam, some tears, some poets, some grass, some loves

recently: some flowers, some hands, some glam, some tears, some poets, some grass, some loves

recently: some flowers, some hands, some glam, some tears, some poets, some grass, some loves

recently: some flowers, some hands, some glam, some tears, some poets, some grass, some loves

So bloody hard to watch him go, but what an honour, what delight, what luck, to be Fola Aguda's kid. Hope my gentle papa knew every day how beloved he was. 🖤

So bloody hard to watch him go, but what an honour, what delight, what luck, to be Fola Aguda's kid. Hope my gentle papa knew every day how beloved he was. 🖤

We dressed up. We loved on books. We danced. Thank you, @nationalbookfoundation and the judges for this honour. @w.w.norton for publishing Ghostroots. @cherbazile for being the best date, for documenting, and for taking care of me. And @reneez25, for everything 💛

We dressed up. We loved on books. We danced. Thank you, @nationalbookfoundation and the judges for this honour. @w.w.norton for publishing Ghostroots. @cherbazile for being the best date, for documenting, and for taking care of me. And @reneez25, for everything 💛

We dressed up. We loved on books. We danced. Thank you, @nationalbookfoundation and the judges for this honour. @w.w.norton for publishing Ghostroots. @cherbazile for being the best date, for documenting, and for taking care of me. And @reneez25, for everything 💛

We dressed up. We loved on books. We danced. Thank you, @nationalbookfoundation and the judges for this honour. @w.w.norton for publishing Ghostroots. @cherbazile for being the best date, for documenting, and for taking care of me. And @reneez25, for everything 💛

We dressed up. We loved on books. We danced. Thank you, @nationalbookfoundation and the judges for this honour. @w.w.norton for publishing Ghostroots. @cherbazile for being the best date, for documenting, and for taking care of me. And @reneez25, for everything 💛

We dressed up. We loved on books. We danced. Thank you, @nationalbookfoundation and the judges for this honour. @w.w.norton for publishing Ghostroots. @cherbazile for being the best date, for documenting, and for taking care of me. And @reneez25, for everything 💛

We dressed up. We loved on books. We danced. Thank you, @nationalbookfoundation and the judges for this honour. @w.w.norton for publishing Ghostroots. @cherbazile for being the best date, for documenting, and for taking care of me. And @reneez25, for everything 💛

We dressed up. We loved on books. We danced. Thank you, @nationalbookfoundation and the judges for this honour. @w.w.norton for publishing Ghostroots. @cherbazile for being the best date, for documenting, and for taking care of me. And @reneez25, for everything 💛

We dressed up. We loved on books. We danced. Thank you, @nationalbookfoundation and the judges for this honour. @w.w.norton for publishing Ghostroots. @cherbazile for being the best date, for documenting, and for taking care of me. And @reneez25, for everything 💛

We dressed up. We loved on books. We danced. Thank you, @nationalbookfoundation and the judges for this honour. @w.w.norton for publishing Ghostroots. @cherbazile for being the best date, for documenting, and for taking care of me. And @reneez25, for everything 💛

Cuties in Vermont

Cuties in Vermont

Cuties in Vermont

Cuties in Vermont

Cuties in Vermont

Cuties in Vermont

Cuties in Vermont

Cuties in Vermont

Cuties in Vermont

Cuties in Vermont

Lagos faces + faaji

Lagos faces + faaji

Lagos faces + faaji

Lagos faces + faaji

Lagos faces + faaji

Lagos faces + faaji

Lagos faces + faaji

Lagos faces + faaji

Lagos faces + faaji

Lagos faces + faaji