Decoding Lagom

By Lola Akinmade Akerstrom

 

Eight of us — six Swedes, one Finn, and me — are gathered in a modest city-center studio apartment in Stockholm’s eclectic Sodermalm district. Next to our dinner table is a small window with a gorgeous view of Stockholm’s history-rich old town, Gamla stan, with its narrow fingerlike red clay, melon,