thebookalert 's review for:

The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.0

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie cares about Nigeria and its people and this was evident in this wonderful short story collection. Each story is complete yet you feel it could also form the basis for a longer novel. And out of the twelve stories written, I would happily read a full length novel on eight of the stories, with The Thing Around Your Neck and The Arrangers of Marriage being the standout stories. The author has a way of writing characters that are vivid and flawed, and even in a short story, the characters felt fully fleshed out. This collection gets 4.25 stars from me.