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A love story and a story of finding one's own voice written with humor and daring frankness. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie provides incites on race and culture without being patronizing. It's an exploration being shared; many discoveries that can only be revealed by someone that knows another culture first. Through this novel, I gained glimpses of a perspective that differs in almost every way from my own life experiences, but because it is relateable in the most essential ways, it has the capacity t
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Apr 16, 2018
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This is a very good book and the length, as well as method of inserting tons of social commentary via dialogue into a love story reminded me, strangely, of Anna Karenina. I'm not sure the blog aspect of the plot was necessary; to me it felt like overkill. Adichie tries to accomplish SO MUCH in this book. Sometimes it works and other times I just felt like it was too much at once. It was like she tried to fit ALL experiences into one book, when she could've maybe written several books exploring t
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