Americanah

Name: Americanah
ISBN: 9780307962126

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2013·588 pages

Literary Fiction

belonging class and inequality dual timeline fish out of water immigration introspective

Former NYT Bestseller

“dazzling…funny and defiant, and simultaneously so wise.”
— San Francisco Chronicle

“An expansive, epic love story.”
— O, The Oprah Magazine

A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America—and the search for what it means to call a place home. 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. At once powerful and tender, Americanah is a remarkable novel that is "dazzling…funny and defiant, and simultaneously so wise."

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