Bitter Melon

Liv Little pulls you into a world where the characters feel like everyone youve ever known, loved and learned. Bitter Melon is deftly written, full of heart and human natures complexities.Candice Carty-Williams

The hotly anticipated second novel from Liv Little, founder of gal-dem and author of Rosewater

Jalissa and her dad arent close, but when he invites her to Jamaica, his homeland, for the first time, she says yes.

Shes running from heartbreak and a loss of her own; hes running out of time.

As they travel through sun-drenched towns and navigate tangled family roots, old wounds open and long-held silences begin to break. Theyre both trying to outrun something-but along the way, they cross paths with people whose stories shift their own, helping them face the past, reckon with the present and reimagine what comes next.

Bitter Melon is a tender, funny, heart-bruised road trip into memory, mortality and the fierce, fragile love between a daughter and the father shes still learning to understand.

A beautiful, tender story about the relationship between a father and daughter, the meaning of home, and finding your way back to yourself. Little captures Jamaica, forever home to me, so beautifully. Thank you for taking me there. Shani Akilah

So moving and unguarded and beautiful. I didnt want to miss a word. Lucy Boynton

Brilliant, tender and intimate.Elle

A moving read about identity, fatherhood and family reconciliation.Good Housekeeping