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352 pages, Hardcover
Expected publication October 29, 2024
1978. When ten-year-old Funke loses her mom in a car accident in Lagos, she is sent to live with her mom’s estranged family in England. Her mother’s sister isn’t so receptive to the idea of raising a mixed-race child, but Funke finds a friend in her cousin Liv. As the years pass by, Funke and Liv go through varied ups and downs, both haunted by the words and deeds of their mothers – one from the past and one in the present. Can the two girls learn to stand for themselves in a world where they are first judged by gender and skin and size?
The story comes to us from the third person perspectives of Funke and Liv, beginning in 1978 and jumping a few years over four sections until it reaches 1998.