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Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Americanah was a National Bestseller and was named one of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century and one of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years. Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be Black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post–9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. At once powerful and tender, Americanah is a remarkable novel that explores questions of race and being Black in America—and the search for what it means to call a place home.

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Publisher
Vintage
ISBN-13
9780307962126
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Race and identityImmigrationLove and relationshipsCultural displacementComing of age

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