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I like the way this book is written. The prose makes me think about what is real and what is fiction. Yosoye finds a community of pregnant women to connect with she drops her indignation and succumbs to the communal cooing which sounded like its own swarm song. In Nigeria, there are so many poor children begging for money on the streets.Yosoye encounters them every day. She is indifferent to them as a Lagonsian, now.
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"It depends," a woman across the circle said. "Is it baby two or seven?"
It was clear that this group was thinking of the suicides as abstract. Like one discussed The Economy. An amorphous force out of their control.
— 6 hours, 2 min ago
It was clear that this group was thinking of the suicides as abstract. Like one discussed The Economy. An amorphous force out of their control.
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In this city, money evaporated in her hands, bank account wasting away like a man afflicted by an unknown disease.
Money was smearing realism all over her dreams.
There were people who kept others around to remind themselves that they were impressive.
I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.
— 6 hours, 6 min ago
In this city, money evaporated in her hands, bank account wasting away like a man afflicted by an unknown disease.
Money was smearing realism all over her dreams.
There were people who kept others around to remind themselves that they were impressive.
I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.
La Tonya Jordan
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Yosoye is pregnant. Other pregnant women are drowning in the water committing suicide. There are different theories of why. A lot of pregnant women see the issue as abstract. The Architect sees her pregnancy as a good omen for OMI City. Yosoye sees her pregnancy as fulfilling her body. Someone who will need her. Yosoye sees this as changing her life. Beloved, the artist is staying in touch with Yosoye.
— 6 hours, 20 min ago
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Yosoye couldn't find the mold she smelled, and air grudgingly sauntered in through the netting of the single window like it was doing her a favor.
— Jul 27, 2026 06:20PM
Yosoye couldn't find the mold she smelled, and air grudgingly sauntered in through the netting of the single window like it was doing her a favor.
La Tonya Jordan
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It is a good start to this novel. I read Ghostroots by this author. I truly did like Ghostroots. One Leg on Earth starts with Miriam, a woman who prayed for thirteen years to get pregnant, jumps off the bridge to her death. The next chapter introduces a recent college graduate, Yosoye, who has a first apartment living in Lagos working her first job after college. She wants to shed her shy self.
— Jul 27, 2026 06:17PM