{"product_id":"little-rot-isbn-9780525541653","title":"Little Rot","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A masterwork…mesmerizing…We come away troubled, unsettled — and in some subtle way changed.”\u003cb\u003e–\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"The perfect steamy read for those hot summer nights.\" \u003cb\u003e–\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning, visionary Akwaeke Emezi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOne weekend. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe elite underbelly of a Nigerian city. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eA party that goes awry. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eA tangled web of sex and lies and corruption that leaves no one unscathed. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Aima and Kalu are a longtime couple who have just split. When Kalu, reeling from the breakup, visits an exclusive sex party hosted by his best friend, Ahmed, he makes a decision that will plunge them all into chaos, brutally and suddenly upending their lives. Ola and Souraya, two Nigerian sex workers visiting from Kuala Lumpur, collide into the scene just as everything goes to hell. Sucked into the city’s corrupt and glittering underworld, they’re all looking for a way out, fueled by a desperate need to escape the dangerous threat that looms over them.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eLittle Rot\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A masterwork. . .mesmerizing. . .We come away troubled, unsettled — and in some subtle way changed.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Twisty, poetic roller-coaster ride of a novel. . .If you want a book that grabs onto your brain and shakes it, I highly recommend Akwaeke Emezi’s genre-defying\u003ci\u003e Little Rot\u003c\/i\u003e. It gutted and enthralled me in equal measure.”\u003cb\u003e—NPR (2024 \"Books We Love\")\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A gritty yet hypnotic novel about a web of loosely connected friends grappling with hidden desires in Lagos. . . Emezi portrays the African city as a corrupting force—but only because falling from grace is so painfully, exquisitely human.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eLittle Rot\u003c\/i\u003e is] fast-paced and devourable in one or two sittings. The writing is as sensuous as reader's of Emezi's work have come to expect, with vividly depicted action, colors, and scenery. . .\u003ci\u003eLittle Rot\u003c\/i\u003e will take you on a pulsing ride beneath the surfaces of people, places, and things. Just don't expect to linger\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003enote the most interesting landmarks as you come to them, then brace yourself for the next enthralling stretch of pandemonium.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e —Chicago Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"[H]as the dark twists and pace of a thriller, the ambitious scope of literary fiction, the language of poetry and the yearning of romance…[T]he blend of melodrama, peril and existential angst in \u003ci\u003eLittle Rot \u003c\/i\u003eis shockingly entertaining and beautifully wrought.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Step into the dark side of Nigerian high society in this sexy, thrilling novel...the perfect steamy read for those hot summer nights.\"\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePeople Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Existential literary fiction meets underworld caper in this unflinching tale . . .Holding it all together is a plot that ducks and dives with cinematic verve, gaining momentum and menace from a series of coincidence-fuelled twists. . .Emezi has a flair for descriptive exuberance that is by turns poetic, melodramatic and scorchingly graphic, perfectly captuing the texture of this tainted world in which amoral decap seeps into every fiber of life.\" \u003cb\u003e—The Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Drama, mystery, beautiful clothes, expensive cars, explosive sex. . .Emezi takes readers to an abyss from which there is no escape.”\u003cb\u003e—Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Emezi unspools a web of erotic danger. . .readers in search of a decadent good time will find it here.\u003cb\u003e\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLittle Rot\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehurtles toward devastation, but even as you anticipate the horrors ahead, the escapist thriller-style pacing will keep you pushing on.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eBookPage\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Multimedia polymath and gender-norm disrupter Emezi. . . examines taboo and trauma in their creative work...Emezi can be counted upon for an ambience of dread and a feverish momentum.\" \u003cb\u003e—The Millions \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Little Rot\u003c\/i\u003e…forces us to see the world with painfully sharp clarity.”—\u003cb\u003eThe Cut \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Emezi is a genius, IMHO. . . Super queer, disturbing and unflinching, Emezi’s latest will leave you uncomfortably questioning morality, power, sex and, well, humanity as a whole.” \u003cb\u003e—Ms Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLittle Rot\u003c\/i\u003e is somewhat ineffable. Emezi is, in my opinion, one of the best writers of the 21st century, and this is them at their best. \u003ci\u003e. .\u003c\/i\u003eThe hard part about trying to write about good writing is that I don't want to tell you with my words to read this book, I want to shove it into your hands and make you devour it in one sitting. Just read it.\"\u003cb\u003e—Pride.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Prolific and brilliant multigenre Nigerian author Akwaeke Emezi is back with a novel chronicling the end of a relationship and a sex party that throws its characters into chaos. Read everything Emezi writes!”\u003cb\u003e—Autostraddle\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAkwaeke Emezi\u003c\/b\u003e (they\/them) is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Vivek Oji\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize, and the PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award; \u003ci\u003ePet\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, a Walter Honor Book, and a Stonewall Honor Book; \u003ci\u003eFreshwater\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable 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; \u003ci\u003eDear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2022 ALA Stonewall Book Award–Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award; and most recently, \u003ci\u003eContent Warning: Everything\u003c\/i\u003e, their debut poetry collection; \u003ci\u003eBitter\u003c\/i\u003e, their second young adult novel; and \u003ci\u003eYou Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, their debut romance novel. Selected as a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation and featured on the cover of \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003eas a Next Generation Leader, they are based in liminal spaces.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233338831077,"sku":"NP9780525541653","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780525541653.jpg?v=1767731562","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/little-rot-isbn-9780525541653","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}