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Americanah Paperback – March 4, 2014

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Author)

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The bestselling novel—a love story of race and identity—from the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele.

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.

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*Starred Review* To the women in the hair-braiding salon, Ifemelu seems to have everything a Nigerian immigrant in America could desire, but the culture shock, hardships, and racism she’s endured have left her feeling like she has “cement in her soul.” Smart, irreverent, and outspoken, she reluctantly left Nigeria on a college scholarship. Her aunty Uju, the pampered mistress of a general in Lagos, is now struggling on her own in the U.S., trying to secure her medical license. Ifemelu’s discouraging job search brings on desperation and depression until a babysitting gig leads to a cashmere-and-champagne romance with a wealthy white man. Astonished at the labyrinthine racial strictures she’s confronted with, Ifemelu, defining herself as a “Non-American Black,” launches an audacious, provocative, and instantly popular blog in which she explores what she calls Racial Disorder Syndrome. Meanwhile, her abandoned true love, Obinze, is suffering his own cold miseries as an unwanted African in London. MacArthur fellow Adichie (The Thing around Your Neck, 2009) is a word-by-word virtuoso with a sure grasp of social conundrums in Nigeria, East Coast America, and England; an omnivorous eye for resonant detail; a gift for authentic characters; pyrotechnic wit; and deep humanitarianism. Americanah is a courageous, world-class novel about independence, integrity, community, and love and what it takes to become a “full human being.” --Donna Seaman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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It is not a stretch to say that her finely observed new book, which combines perfectly calibrated social satire and heartfelt emotion, stands with Invisible Man and The Bluest Eye as a defining work about the experience of being black in America.--Ruth Franklin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Paperback: 588 pages
Publisher: Anchor (March 4, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307455920
ISBN-13: 978-0307455925
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 1 x 8 inches
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Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3,462 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #328 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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My story has final been written

ByMouhamadou Diagneon August 6, 2015

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As a west African born and raised in Senegal but immigrated to the U.S. At a young age, I had always wanted to see a story like mine captured in a work of fiction. I used to think that I would have to write that book myself, since I really could not see it on bookshelves. I'm referring to books about being an African immigrant to the United States. How we identify racially and how that is different from African Americans. Some of the challenges with immigration papers, unemployment, and being taken advantage of due to our lack of familiarity with the American system.

Needless to say, I absolutely adored this book. It was incredibly well-written and worth all 500+ pages necessary. The characters were so alive o felt like they were in the same room as me. This is definitely one of my all-time favorite books.

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Love, culture and race...

ByWilliam B. Radlon December 29, 2016

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A June, 2016 Pew research study was titled On Views of Race and Inequality, Blacks and Whites are Worlds Apart. While interesting, the Pew study, like so much of what we "know" about America, comes in a distilled abstraction that does not elicit a feeling. In Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Aditchie personalizes the various and real meanings of race, racism, black, white, foreign, and native, and describes feelings of anger, hurt, joy and love as she follows a Nigerian couple from high school into the beginning of middle life. Together and in love as young people in Africa they eventually move apart, to different parts of the world, seeing themselves over and over again through the eyes of those raised in cultures that they had long admired, but surprised and confused by the disconnect between expectation and reality, struggling to hold on to their dreams and failing. Their friends follow much the same trajectory and each reconciles to their new culture differently, giving up parts of themselves and acquiring new parts to survive.

This is a wide ranging, smart novel that makes the ideas of race and color and gender real in the context of the sexual, political, religious and intellectual cultures of America, Nigeria and England. Ifemelu, the young woman we follow from Africa to America and back, at one point, frustrated by a young American white woman who asks about the book she is reading thinks, "Why (do) people ask “What is it about?” as if a novel ha(s) to be about only one thing." This novel is about many many things.

And though she is not optimistic about racism in America, Aditchie gives us one answer from Ifemelu: "The simplest solution to the problem of race in America? Romantic love. Not friendship. Not the kind of safe, shallow love where the objective is that both people remain comfortable. But real deep romantic love, the kind that twists you and wrings you out and makes you breathe through the nostrils of your beloved. And because that real deep romantic love is so rare, and because American society is set up to make it even rarer between American Black and American White, the problem of race in America will never be solved."

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Wow...

ByAisha Wallison August 16, 2015

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I'd put off reading this book for a long time. It was recommended by vloggers, by friends on Facebook and NPR, but I simply wasn't super interested in reading something that had anything at all to do with race. Why? Because things like that can be emotionally draining and I with all the things going on in this country especially... I needed a break. A break, not a book that could possibly exacerbate my growing resentment and anger.

I finally broke down and bought this book when Booktuber, Ameriie (yes, the same Ameriie who sang "One Thing" that was my jam back in the day) mentioned it during Booktube-A-Thon. It wasn't *what* she said when she spoke about it that got me, it was *how* she said it. I could tell that Americanah was affecting her in a way that her words could fully explain. I wanted to feel what she was feeling...

So here I am writing a review. This is something I don't usually take the time out to do. Oh, I'll gladly rate a book. It's easy to click those stars! It isn't, however, always easy for me to voice my thoughts on a book. Especially books that evoke so many emotions.

Americanah is one of those indescribable books.

Would I recommend it to a friend? I'm not sure. I feel that this is one of those books I love so much I would consider ending the relationship with a friend who didn't love it.

I'm only half joking. I would definitely stop talking to that friend for a few days. Lol!

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beautiful

ByLorion January 30, 2015

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Beautiful. Ifemelu is a wonderful heroine, and I can't get her out of my mind. She's a terrific protagonist: smart, clever, impulsive, wary, stubborn, malleable, loving and loveable. The author writes beautiful prose, and her characters and scenes are interesting and believable. The plot spans three continents and Adichie's descriptive passages are superb.

I am surprised people have complained about the blogs; Ifemelu is a blogger, so naturally the book would not be complete without her blogs. They are essential to the story, an important means of self-expression and self-exploration for Ifemelu.

I had never heard of Adichie before I got this book. I plan to read her other books and hope she writes a sequel to "Americanah." I am not ready to say good-bye to Ifemelu; I want to know what happens to her beyond the end of this book. Indeed I wish I could have a coffee with her. I would love to have a conversation wtih her, and there are things I'd like to ask her; she's that real to me. Well done, Ms. Adichie.

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Amazing book. So much insight into cultures that are ...

Amazing book. So much insight into cultures that are different than my own. I look forward to books by CNA

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This is an incredible book.

Is it strange that already I miss these characters?They were flawed and felt so real, they felt like apart of me.Read more

Published 4 days ago by Amazon Customer

Best Novel Ever!

An amazingly well written novel on love and identity. I can call this the best novel I've read. Chimamanda writes art and mathematics; it's beautifully intricate.

Published 5 days ago by elizabeth samuel

A+

A+ Amazing Fantastic Could Not Put It Down Ten Fingers Up And Clapping Wow 10/10 Great No Points Off Life Changing

Published 6 days ago by Jordan

Beautiful story. Prepare for a British accented narrator who ...

Beautiful story. Prepare for a British accented narrator who is not good at doing American accents--at all.Read more

Published 8 days ago by Helolo

Excellent

I loved this book cover to cover. A love story that opened my eyes about life in America, Nigeria and their cultures.

Published 12 days ago by Naomi Donabedian

And she exhaled....finally!

I thought this was a good read and I would definitely recommend this book. I can now resume my life.

Published 12 days ago by not pleased

Loved it!

Love Adichie's writing.

Published 13 days ago by Amazon Customer

It's like the Donald Trump of book selections

I just don't see how this is a modern classic. It is slow, predictable, and dry. I got it because it was selected for the NYC Reads program. I can't believe this book won.Read more

Published 14 days ago by William Beckler

Four Stars

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