Bitter Honey by Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Spanning four decades and three continents, Bitter Honey is a story about a mother and daughter divided by long buried secrets, struggling to understand each other as they forge their own paths, from the internationally bestselling author of In Every Mirror She’s Black . 1978: A scholarship draws Nancy from Gambia’s warmth into Stockholm’s frigid winter. When her friendship with charismatic scholar Lars blossoms into something more, she thinks she may have finally found her place. But there’s mo