On The Thing Around Your Neck

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck - Boys who had grown up watching Sesame Street, reading Enid Blyton, eating cornflakes for breakfast, attending the university staff primary school in smartly polished brown sandals, were now cutting through the mosquito netting of their neighbors' windows, sliding out glass louvers, and climbing in to steal TVs and VCRs. - - It is one of the things she has come to love about America, the abundance of unreasonable hope. - - As she walked back to her cabin, she wondered whether this ending, in a story, would be considered plausible. -...