Tangerinn

A luminous debut about migration, memory, and the fragile search for belonging, Tangerinn moves between London and the windswept coast of southern Italy to explore what it means to inherit a life shaped by displacement.

Mina is thirty, living in London, and increasingly unmoored. She left home at twenty in an attempt to reinvent herself and escape her past, but a decade later she finds herself drifting, uncertain of who she is or where she belongs. When her Moroccan-born father Omar dies, she returns to the Calabrian town where she grew up, a place defined by the bar he once ran, the Tangerinn. More than a business, it was a refuge for migrants and outsiders, a living expression of his dream, now tenuously preserved by Mina’s sister Aisha.

As Mina sorts through what remains of her father’s life, she begins to uncover the layered histories embedded in the bar, the town, and her own family. In doing so, she is drawn into a reckoning with her fractured identity and the competing loyalties of past and present. Gradually, she must decide what it means to belong, to a place, to a language, and to herself.

Tender yet clear-eyed, intimate yet politically resonant, Tangerinn is a richly atmospheric novel about inheritance, exile, and the quiet, ongoing work of making a home.