![]() ![]() ![]() National Book Critics Circle Award Winner Start discussions a tool a reading assignment for Americans whoīelieve this country (or any country) is “post-racial.” Polemic on race, particularly race in the United States it’s a book to Two young Nigerians making their lives under drastically different (and She'sĪmericanah functions as many things, which is part of why it Nigeria, moving to the UK and US, and ultimately finding each otherĪgain in Africa, Adichie is a master at tellang a great story withĬompelling characters as well as causing a reader to think. Required reading for everyone living in a country that claims to be "post-racial." Adiche is akin to a modern-day Jane Austen, with her razor-sharp social commentary that somehow manages to avoid judgment, and her sense of absurdity and comedy, even in the most serious of situations. ![]() Americanah is painful in the second way - under Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche's incomparably observant, intelligent eye, the U.S.'s fraught relationship to race and racism is thrown into harsh relief by a self-described "Non-American Black," Ifemelu, who writes a blog about her experiences moving Stateside and becoming, as her friends in Nigeria say, an Americanah. "In physical therapy, there are two kinds of pain: the kind where you're actually causing yourself an injury, and the kind that means good work is being done. ![]()
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