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What started out as a blog for book reviews and a gathering of friends in a book club, has grown into a one-stop shop for book related solutions. We are now a bookstore, a book café, a book box service and a book club.
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The Greenhouse Mall

Suite 12, Ground Floor, West Wing

Ngong Rd, Nairobi

Soma Nami Books

Coricom House, 33 Ngara Rd, Ngara 

Nairobi, Kenya

Daughter in Exile

Bisi Adjapon

The acclaimed author of The Teller of Secrets returns with a gut-wrenching, yet heartwarming, story about a young Ghanaian woman’s struggle to make a life in the US, and the challenges she must overcome.

Lola is twenty-one, and her life in Senegal couldn’t be better. An aspiring writer and university graduate, she has a great job, a nice apartment, a vibrant social life, and a future filled with possibility. But fate disrupts her world when she falls for Armand, an American Marine stationed at the U.S. Embassy. Her mother, a high court judge in Ghana, disapproves of her choice, but nothing will stop Lola from boarding a plane for Armand and America.

That fateful flight is only the beginning of an extraordinary journey; she has traded her carefree existence in Senegal for the perilous position of an undocumented immigrant in 1990s America.

Lola encounters adversity that would crush a less-determined woman. Her fate hangs on whether or not she’ll grow in courage to forge a different life from one she’d imagined, whether she’ll succeed in putting herself and family together again. 

Daughter in Exile is a hope-filled story about mother love, resilience, and unyielding strength.

Soma Nasi, won’t you?

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You know when we take a break it's because we are working on something grand! We paused our book boxes so we could rebrand and make it a value add product, incorporating all your feedback. 

Re-introducing the Soma Nami Book Box - revamped, rebranded and so much value for you our dear clients.  

We have curated our current Holiday Book box as the perfect gift for yourself and your loved ones.  For all your special occasions.

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