In Every Mirror She’s Black: A Novel

Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström

Jan 2022 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Sara Powell and Rosemarie Akwafo

About this audiobook

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 US 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 US propels former model-turned-flight-attendant Brittany-Rae Johnson into a life of wealth, luxury, and privilege as the object of his unhealthy obsession. And refugee Muna Saheed 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 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.

About the author

Nigerian American and based in Sweden, Lolá Ákinmáde Åkerström is an award-winning author, speaker, and photographer. Her work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, the Guardian, Sunday Times Travel, the Telegraph, New York Times, Travel + Leisure, Slate, Adventure Magazine, Lonely Planet, and elsewhere.

Born in Jamaica, Sara Powell is an accomplished stage, television, and film actress. Her credits include Last Christmas, Holby Blue, and Vanity Fair.