RaveBooklistAkinola tackles tough topics through rich, fully formed characters in this sensitive portrayal of how family dynamics can be stifling and how seeing things from only one perspective means missing out on the full picture. This debut novel is an exquisitely observed portrait of an impactful two-month slice of one immigrant family’s complicated experience in this country.
Kate Fagan
RaveBooklistFagan’s journalism-honed observational skills make her fiction debut shine.