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Author Akinmade-Akerström, Lola, author.

Title In every mirror she's Black : a novel / Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström.

Publication Info. Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2021]
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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION AKINMADE-AKERSTROM    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  F AKINMADE AKERSTROM, L.    DUE 11-12-21 Billed
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F AKERSTROM    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  FICTION AKINMADE AKERSTROM    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  FICTION AKINMADE-AKERSTROM    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  FICTION AKINMADE-AKERSTRON, LOLA    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  FIC ÁKÍNMÁDÉ-ÅKERSTRÖM    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F AKINMADE    DUE 04-17-24
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult New Materials  FIC AKIN    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  F AKINMADE-AKERSTROM    Check Shelf

Description 408 pages ; 24 cm
Note Includes author's note, reading group guide, and conversation with the author.
Summary "A timely and 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 Somali 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. Lola Akinmade Åkerström is an African-American (Nigerian-American) award-winning author, speaker, and photographer based in Sweden. This is her first novel"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Women, Black -- Sweden -- Stockholm -- Fiction.
Women, Black -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Stockholm (Sweden) -- Fiction.
FICTION / African American & Black / Women.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Women.
Women, Black. (OCoLC)fst01178916
Genre/Form Social problem fiction.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Added Title In every mirror she is Black
Other Form: Online version: Akinmade-Akerström, Lola. In every mirror she's Black Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2021] 9781728240381 (DLC) 2020053739
ISBN 9781728240381 (hardcover)
1728240387 (hardcover)
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