This is a fairly intense book about three Black women in search of a better life end up in Sweden. Linking all three is a wealthy, enigmatic, and damaged man, Jonny. Kemi Adeyemi, 34, a Nigerian American successful professional, is headhunted by Jonny’s Stockholm PR firm. Muna Saheed, a 20-year-old janitor at Jonny’s firm, fled from Somalia two years earlier, leaving behind her family and the man she was in love with. And lastly there is Brittany, a black American flight attendant that falls hard for her and woos her to be his wife. So all three of them are exposed to racial prejudice and profiling, but they are all three immigrants to Sweden, none of them adjusting and not one of them accepted. The other thing that they share is that they are objectified sexually and not a one of them escapes. They are various levels of undone by the cascading experiences that they face. It is a many layered and rich portrayal of making it when you have black skin in a predominantly white country.
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