Americanah
A Literary Fiction, Novels, Africa book. In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped...
From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries they come to call home.As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are leaving the country if they can. Ifemelu—beautiful, self-assured—departs for America to study. She suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships and friendships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze—the quiet, thoughtful son of a professor—had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.Years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a writer of an eye-opening blog about race in America. But when Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, and she and Obinze reignite their shared passion—for...
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She had always liked this image of herself as too much trouble, as different, and she sometimes thought of it as a carapace that kept her safe. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah // Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah // In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Heres the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. So if you havent lynched somebody then you cant be called a racist. If youre not a bloodsucking monster, then you cant be called a racist. Somebody has to be able to say that racists are not monsters. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah //
Adichie and I seem to share sensibilities and I often mention her as one of my favourite authors, even if I often think she lets herself off too easily. Which is another thing we seem to have in common, as I tend to let myself off too easily too. What I mean by that is that I wanted more, lets call it, epicness. Adichie is a wonderful... The Hook - A promise to myself to get to some of those books on my TBR pile. One down, thousands to go.The Line How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.The Sinker I loved the journey I took with the author and characters in Americanah, what I call more a story of love than... It's my first Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book for some reason. My only experience with Nigerian literature heretofore has been Things Fall Apart which I've read multiple times and think exquisite. I had no notion of what to expect with this book, but I do know I was hoping for an idea of a modern Nigeria. I'm also always up for cultural...
