'Pemi Aguda presents ONE LEG ON EARTH

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Join us on Monday, June 1, in Remington to celebrate the release of 'Pemi Aguda's new novel, One Leg on Earth! 'Pemi will be in conversation with Baltimore author Mai Sennaar!

About One Leg on Earth:

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 inexplicable 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: a coming-of-age story, an uncanny exploration of motherhood, and a chilling vision of the dark side of progress.

One Leg on Earth releases on Tuesday, May 5. Preorder your copy here!

’Pemi Aguda is the author of One Leg on Earth and Ghostroots, a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Trained as an architect in Lagos, Nigeria, she lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Mai Sennaar's debut novel They Dream in Gold was called “extraordinary” by the New York Times and “glorious” by the Guardian. Named a “rising literary star” by the Times (UK), her debut was a finalist for The Center for Fiction 2024 First Novel Prize. The book was also longlisted for the Historical Writers’ Association Debut Crown award in the UK. A Best Debut Book of 2024 by Amazon and Best Book of July by Time, it was a Washington Post summer pick. It was also the July 2025 UK Indie Book of the Month, and one of Brittle Paper’s 100 Notable African Books. A multi-hyphenate artist, she is the librettist for the opera Yita, a 2026 Opera America Discovery Grant winner. Selected by a jury that includes leadership from the Met Opera, the workshop premiere is slated for next summer in NYC. Her film Wax Lovers’ Playlist screened at the 2018 Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival. An NYU alum, she lives in Baltimore and frequents Dakar.

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