Coming February 2026
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A radiant, highly anticipated debut from the Well-Read Black Girl Books series, delving into the secret lives of three women on the eve of Eritrean independence.
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"Bsrat Mezghebe's I Hope You Find What You're Looking For is a gorgeous exploration of family, identity, and the complex meanings of home. As the novel's young protagonist, Lydia, comes of age, we follow her quest for family history, witnessing both the power of present self-knowledge and the importance of deep connection with the past. In striking prose, Mezghebe elegantly weaves several interlacing histories—personal, familial, and national—with clear-eyed tenderness, showing us how intimacy and connection can form the ground that makes true freedom possible. I Hope You Find What You're Looking For tells these stories through the eyes of a family of remarkable women whose perspectives on belonging will resonate far beyond this beautiful novel's final lines."
—Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, author of Big Girl
"I Hope You Find What You're Looking For is a luminous debut that takes us into a world of women kin—guerilla fighters, caretakers, and daughters—during the charged final days of Eritrea's hard-won war of independence. With prose that hums with grace and love that resists easy language, Bsrat Mezghebe captures the ache of dislocation and the complex beauty of immigrant life in America."
—Susan Abulhawa, internationally bestselling author of Against the Loveless World