num_pages: 412
description: An AMAZON Best of the Month PickGood Morning America (GMA) Book Club Buzz PickFinalist - 2022 AAMBC Literary Award for both eBook &amp; audiobookShortlist - 2021 Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) AwardShortlist - 2021 Bad Form Book of the Year--------------------------------------------------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 privilegea life she's not sure she wantsas 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.Lola Akinmade kerstrm is an African-American (Nigerian-American) award-winning author speaker and photographer based in Sweden. This is her first novel.
language: English
title: In Every Mirror She's Black
publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark