Set in Richmond, Virginia, A Taste of Home is a lyrical love story about patience, belonging, and the quiet art of connection.
When Nkem, a 34-year-old culinary student from Cameroon, crosses paths with Maya, a passionate high school principal devoted to her community, neither expects their worlds to intertwine. But through shared meals, silence, and the language of flavor, they discover that love doesn’t arrive to change you — it comes to remind you of who you’ve always been.
Told in alternating voices and infused with poetic intimacy, A Taste of Home explores how two people learn to listen—to food, to time, and to each other. Their story unfolds like a slow recipe: fragrant, deliberate, and filled with warmth.
A novel about love that finds you when you finally stop searching, and how the right person can turn every ordinary moment into something luminous
