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Also by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom:

Everything Is Not Enough, October 2024
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Everything Is Not Enough, November 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
In Every Mirror She's Black, June 2022
Trade Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
In Every Mirror She's Black, September 2021
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In Every Mirror She's Black
Lola Akinmade Akerstrom

Sourcebooks Landmark
September 2021
On Sale: September 7, 2021
Featuring: Kemi Adeyemi; Brittany-Rae Johnson; Muna Saheed
416 pages
ISBN: 1728240387
EAN: 9781728240381
Kindle: B08QX6MGHP
Hardcover / e-Book
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Trade Paperback (reprint - June 2022)

Multicultural African-American | Women's Fiction

An arresting debut for anyone looking for insight into what it means to be a Black woman in the world.

Three Black women are linked in unexpected ways to the same influential white man in Stockholm as they build their new lives in the most open society run by the most private people.

Successful marketing executive Kemi Adeyemi is lured from the U.S. to Sweden by Jonny von Lundin, CEO of the nation's largest marketing firm, to help fix a PR fiasco involving a racially tone-deaf campaign. A killer at work but a failure in love, Kemi's move is a last-ditch effort to reclaim her social life.

A chance meeting with Jonny in business class en route to the U.S. propels former model-turned-flight-attendant Brittany-Rae Johnson into a life of wealth, luxury, and privilege - a life she's not sure she wants - as the object of his unhealthy obsession.

And refugee Muna Saheed, who lost her entire family, finds a job cleaning the toilets at Jonny's office as she works to establish her residency in Sweden and, more importantly, seeks connection and a place she can call home.

Told through the perspectives of each of the three women, In Every Mirror She's Black is a fast-paced, richly nuanced yet accessible contemporary novel that touches on important social issues of racism, classism, fetishization, and tokenism, and what it means to be a Black woman navigating a white-dominated society.

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Re: In Every Mirror She's Black

I think the review of this book is enticing and revying of how
Black women are regarded no matter their social status whether
it is abroad or in America. We are still trying to find our
place in society whether in love or personal matters.
(Wanda Dixon 9:05am November 30, 2021)