Book Talk: Bitter Honey with Lolá Ákínmádé

Join us on Tuesday, November 4 at 7 PM for a release-day celebration of Lolá Ákínmádé's newest novel, BITTER HONEY! Lolá will be joined in conversation by Chicago journalist Rosalind Cummings-Yeates!

About the Book

In BITTER HONEY, Lolá Ákínmádé returns with a captivating multi-generational tale that explores the complicated bonds of family, the sharp edges of abandonment, and the enduring desire to find one’s place in the world. Through the intertwined perspectives of a Swedish pop star, her Gambian-born mother, and the man whose choices fractured their lives, Ákínmádé lays bare the personal costs of immigration, nationalism, and forbidden love. Told with the lush, cinematic prose that earned Ákínmádé acclaim for In Every Mirror She’s Black, BITTER HONEY is a searing exploration of racial identity and belonging, rich with themes of identity, cultural dislocation, mental health, and complicated bonds between mothers and daughters.

Nigerian-American Lolá Ákínmádé is an award-winning travel writer, speaker, photographer, and author of the international bestseller In Every Mirror She’s Black and Everything Is Not Enough. She is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Rosalind Cummings-Yeates is an award-winning journalist who traverses all aspects of communication, from articles, websites and books to panel discussions, workshops and classes. She specializes in travel, culture and arts topics and pens stories that reflect the traditions, history and spirit of people and places.