Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Left Nigeria. Learned she was Black in America.
you want to understand race as something America imposes rather than something people simply are
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Ifemelu grows up in Lagos without thinking of herself as Black. She moves to America for university and discovers that here, race is a category she cannot opt out of. Adichie uses that experience — the outsider seeing American racism with fresh eyes — to write one of the sharpest dispatches about race in America ever produced. Also a love story. Also a portrait of contemporary Lagos. Also a meditation on what it means to return home after you've been changed by elsewhere.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Nigeria • West Africa
- Voice
- Written by a Nigerian author
- Themes
- WitnessBorderlands
