One of The New York Times‘s Ten Best Books of the Year
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
An NPR “Great Reads” Book, a Chicago Tribune Best Book, a Washington Post Notable Book, a Seattle Times Best Book, an Entertainment Weekly Top Fiction Book, a Newsday Top 10 Book, and a Goodreads Best of the Year pick.
A powerful, tender story of race and identity by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun.
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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Summary
This is a love story of two young people, Ifemelu and Obinze from when they meet in Nigeria to Ifemelu's journey to America. She tells of the struggles to get used to a new culture and new exciting things she has never experienced before. She explains how it feels to be black and the racism she endures. Obinze decides to live in London and we also see through his eyes a black Nigerian boy trying to fit in. The book for me was good until about three-fourths of the way through, then it seemed to portray the author's personal political agenda and also her extreme obsession with what she felt was racism towards her.