Americanah in Overdue Podcast

Sep 27, 2019 Jason rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: own

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 ...more

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Apr 16, 2018 Valerie Brett rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: book-club-lwb

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 ...more

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Jul 27, 2020 Margot rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: i-own-it, contemporary-fiction, translated, coffee-and-books-2020, 2020-read

J'ai beaucoup aimé cette lecture, mais... il me manquait quelque chose quand j'ai terminé. J'ai eu l'impression que la fin tombait un peu à plat.
D'abord, je dois dire que je croyais que ce livre était un essai, pas un roman. Lorsque j'ai eu "la brique" de 685 pages en mains, j'ai compris mon erreur. Je pense que cette impression m'est venue de "stories" que j'ai vu sur Instagram où une femme lisait des extraits du livre qui disaient aux femmes blanches que si une femme noire te raconte un incid ...more

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