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Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5.0

Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is very accessible account of a Nigerian woman who goes to America and then returns to Nigeria. Part love story, part searing indictment of American views on race, Adichie paints a subtle picture of an outsider's perspective on American culture. Along the way she mocks academic intellectuals with their need for everyone have a subtextual meaning suitable for analysis just as much as their opposites who accept everyone face value. Highly recommended.