Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We’ve read two previous novels (*Purple Hibiscus* and *Half of a Yellow Sun*) by the same author before in this book club and most of us liked both of them a lot, so I’d like to propose her latest book for reading here.
From the Guardian review: There are some novels that tell a great story and others that make you change the way you look at the world. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah is a book that manages to do both. It is ostensibly a love story – the tale of childhood sweethearts at school in Nigeria whose lives take different paths when they seek their fortunes in America and England – but it is also a brilliant dissection of modern attitudes to race, spanning three continents and touching on issues of identity, loss and loneliness. This is Adichie’s third and most ambitious novel – her first, *Purple Hibiscus*, was longlisted for the Booker prize and her second, *Half a Yellow Sun*, won the Orange prize. A highly acclaimed 2009 collection of short stories, *The Thing Around Your Neck*, cemented her position as one of the most promising African writers of her generation.
First suggested: June 2014
Supporter(s): Uli, Jessy, Richie, Nicole, Nela