Fiction – Literary – Psychological – Friendship

RELEASE DATE: 6/18/2024 ( WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER’S WAREHOUSE AND ARRIVE 1-2 DAYS AFTER THE RELEASE DATE)

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning, visionary Akwaeke Emezi

One weekend. The elite underbelly of a Nigerian city. A breakup that starts a spiral. A party that goes awry. A tangled web of sex and lies and corruption that leaves no one unscathed.Little Rotis a whirling journey through the citys dark side, told through the eyes of five people, each determined to run from the twisted powers out to destroy them.

Aima and Kalu are a longtime couple who have just split. When Kalu, reeling from his loss, visits a sex party hosted by his best friend, Ahmed, he makes a decision that will plunge them all into chaos, brutally upending their lives. Ola and Souraya, two Nigerian sex workers visiting from Kuala Lumpur, intersect with the three old friends as everything goes to hell. Sucked into the citys corrupt underworld, theyre all looking for a way out of the trouble theyve instigated, driven by loss and fueled by a desperate need to escape the dangerous threat that looms over them. They careen madly in the face of the poison of power, sexual violence, murder, betrayals.Little Rottests how far these five will go to save each otheror themselveswhen confronted by evil, culminating in a shattering denouement.

With each novel, with each creation, Akwaeke Emezi shows their genius as a storyteller, as a visionary force who has created a thrilling tale of sex, power, and deviance inLittle Rot. You wont be able to look away.

AUTHOR BIO:

Akwaeke Emezi(they/them) is the author of theNew York TimesbestsellerThe Death of Vivek Oji, which was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award;Pet, a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, a Walter Honor Book, and a Stonewall Honor Book;Freshwater, which was named aNew York TimesNotable Book and short-listed for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize;Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir, which won the 2022 ALA Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award; and most recently,Content Warning: Everything, their debut poetry collection;Bitter, their second young adult novel; andYou Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, their debut romance novel. Selected as a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation and featured on the cover ofTimeas a Next Generation Leader, they are based in liminal spaces.