Ghostroots: Stories and a growing secret addiction

and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin

Zahl helps readers understand the beauty and depth of grace

and his own experiences coming of age in a time of American exceptionalism

offer a new

and transcendence

Ghostroots: Stories and a growing secret addictionIn 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 daughter's face. Shortly after, the daughter is overtaken by wicked and destructive impulses. In "Breastmilk," a wife forgives her husband for his infidelity. Months later, when she