Category: Fiction, Novels & Story Books
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." —San Francisco Chronicle