Three generations of Kikonde women. Three different ways of loving what might cost you everything.

Namazzi gives herself to Uganda as it moves towards independence, and to a marriage that has slowly become a life of habit. Then an old love returns, forcing her to confront the parts of herself she thought she had left behind.

Kera meets Habimana at Makerere and discovers a love that feels like a country of its own. But she carries a secret about the future that changes the way she understands every moment they have together.

Sinai, an architect moving between cities, countries and lovers, searches for something she cannot quite name. She must learn whether she can build a life that is genuinely hers or inherit the longings of the women before her.

Bark, Bite, Kisses is a novel about the quiet costs of loving a person, a country and a life, and the question that follows each generation: how much of yourself can you give to what you love before you have to leave?