Author, speaker, and photographer Lola Akinmade Åkerström is Nigerian-American, and based in Sweden. Her debut novel In Every Mirror She's Black was published in 2021, and her second book, Everything is Not Enough, is out today with Head of Zeus. It tells the story of three women as they try to navigate life, love, prejudice and privilege in Stockholm.
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Books for teenagers
When I started writing in about 1990, publishers were very keen on the teenage market. They knew kids were spending money on music and that there were films for kids that age, but books somehow weren't quite happening. The fuss when Junk came out was because it really was a book for teenagers. Read more