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Leave your mess at home / Tolani Akinola.

Akinola, Tolani, (author.).

Summary:

"The Longe siblings are really botching their parents' American Dream. Sola Longe, eldest daughter, estranged from the family, is secretly back home in Chicago for the first time in a decade. She's a newly single and recently disgraced influencer trying to quietly put her life back together. The other three Longe siblings aren't doing much better. Anjola is in love with her best friend, who just got engaged to someone else; Karen, a college junior and the baby of the family, is grappling with her sexuality and self-image; and Ola, the golden child with a baby of his own on the way, is questioning his marriage and how to raise a Black son in America. Sola's unexpected return sets them on a collision course, and when the four siblings find themselves together again at their Nigerian parents' Thanksgiving table, a decade's worth of secrets and a lifetime of resentments explode to the fore. In the wreckage of their fateful reunion, each Longe is forced to face the past, take stock of what really matters, and find a way back to one another. Bighearted, hilarious, and poignant, Leave Your Mess At Home is an insightful debut about forgiveness, unconditional love, and becoming who you want to be, asking the question: What do we owe to our families, and what do we owe to ourselves?"-- Publisher description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593834190
  • ISBN: 0593834194
  • Physical Description: 373 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, 2026.
Subject:
Nigerian Americans > Fiction.
Adult children > Family relationships > Fiction.
Homecoming > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) > Fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.
Novels.
Domestic fiction.

Available copies

  • 30 of 61 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 3 copies available at Onslow County Public Library.

Holds

  • 4 current holds with 61 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Jacksonville Main Library FIC AKINOLA (Text) 36015002715213 Adult New Fiction Checked out 08/19/2026
Richlands Branch Library FIC AKINOLA (Text) 36015002715270 Adult New Fiction Checked out 08/18/2026
Swansboro Branch Library FIC AKINOLA (Text) 36015002715338 Adult Fiction Available -

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