We were positive that my book would be snapped up in an auction because it felt epic, genre-crossing and boundary-breaking. It was everything traditional publishers said they were looking for in book club fiction.

We were positive that my book would be snapped up in an auction because it felt epic, genre-crossing and boundary-breaking. It was everything traditional publishers said they were looking for in book club fiction.
Lola Ákínmádé Åkerström talks freely about how In Every Mirror She’s Black upends mainstream ideas about Nordic society and her difficult journey to publication.
Solitude is the real story of In Every Mirror She’s Black, a unique distillation of commercial and literary fiction that ultimately hits like a tragedy.
When No One Is Watching makes it clear that there are heavy physical and emotional tolls to be paid for choosing to actively participate in a history and present of injustice.