"Everything is not enough" by Lola Akinmade Åkerström

An audio book.

Stockholm. Black women's struggles - do they need need to learn Swedish? Trophy wives? Problems adapting to Swedish society - an average weight US woman might seem plump in Sweden.

• Yasmin arrived from Africa thanks to a sex client connected to the embassy. She's married to Turkish businessman Yagiz. She has a child. She's a beautician.
• Brittany-Rae, early 40s, ex flight stewardess, married rich Jonny. She has a child. She thinks Jonny never loved her - she was a replacement. She wants to start a fashion company and divorce him. She may need to cash in on her looks - she's described as the Nordic Naomi
• Kemi works for Jonny - the company's token black. Her boyfriend, Tobias, is a rather feckless black.

• Yasmin is questioned about Muna. She hasn't seen her for a year. They had the same social worker, Yasmin's her next-of-kin. Her husband Yagiz has seen her more recently. Had they been having an affair? Muna is in Karolinska Hospital having thrown herself under a train, a leg partially amputated. She finds out about Akmed, Muna's friend who killed himself, and his box of souvenirs
• Brittany covertly seeks a divorce lawyer and with the help of his PA Eva researches into his many past lovers. Did Jonny murdered his teenage girlfriend?
• Kemi sleeps with Ragnor, a married white colleague. She can't explain the attraction. When he's sad after his wife's late miscarriage, she sleeps with him again. She's sacked. Tobias leaves her.

Jasmin does Brittany's hair. Jasmin's wife has a cleaning contract with Brittany's husband. Muna's last job was with that company.

• Yasmin learns about the atrocity that Akmed witnessed and contacts a relative. She helps Muna rehabilitate. Yagiz is convicted of running various supply rings.
• Jonny's mother (a racist) killed Jonni's ex and daughter. Jonny gives Brittany a generous divorce.
• Kemi's pregnant. But who's the father? Turns out that it's Tobias. Twins!

Other reviews

• Anne Eliot Feldman (Despite their considerable talents and energy, they are relegated to the margins, their dreams threatened by a white-dominated society set up to prefer homogeneity ... alternation among three close-third-person POVs)
• justreadit (I found it really hard to follow Kemi’s story as it was more than a little frustrating to watch her lean into an affair which she admits did not serve her. ... Brittany’s storyline was another exercise in patience. It felt like for at least half the book, she was just going in circles ... Yasmin’s story, and by extension Muna’s, was really powerful and riveting to read. ... I have very mixed feelings about this novel – I didn’t hate it, but I also didn’t love it. As well-written as it was in some parts, it also felt a bit disjointed in places. The ending was rushed and too neatly resolved, which jarred with the drama of first half of the book.)