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REVIEWS: Americanah
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The NY Times
The Guardian
The Washington Post
Book Companion
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s
The Great American Read. 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. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic
Nigeria, and reignite their passion—for each other and for their
homeland.
Characters: 201. Amazon rating: 4 1/2 stars. Genre: Fiction.
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