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"Americanah" looks at race, class, identity, and immigration across three continents. The novel opens with Ifemelu reflecting on natural black hair styles as she is getting her hair braided. She had spent almost fifteen years in the United States as a student, a blogger, and as a writer with a Princeton fellowship. Now she was going to return to her homeland, Nigeria.
The story is told through flashbacks and through her provocative blog, "Raceteenth or Various Observations About American Blacks ( ...more
The story is told through flashbacks and through her provocative blog, "Raceteenth or Various Observations About American Blacks ( ...more
Ifemelu is a young Nigerian woman who wins a scholarship to study in the USA. But the love of her life, Obinze, cannot join her. While she struggles to pay her way through college, eventually starting a blog about race issues in America, he overstays his visa in England and works illegally there.
There's a story here with interesting characters and a lot of great writing, but it's also a vehicle for examining race issues in the US and UK which - as the characters point out - do not affect them i ...more
There's a story here with interesting characters and a lot of great writing, but it's also a vehicle for examining race issues in the US and UK which - as the characters point out - do not affect them i ...more
I liked this book, but I really struggled to finish it, it is very dense, full of characters and stories, but certainly interesting, too bad for those 150 pages,at least, that were too much in my opinion. Ifemelu's blog contains insights crazy for someone like me, who does not even have a black friend (not by choice) and certainly this novel is a kind of incredible breakthrough into the lives of African-American people, but to return to the characters, I find a little difficult to understand wha
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Ifemelu and Obinze have an amazing love story. I loved these characters and the author's description of Nigerian culture. This is really a coming of age novel about the meaning of home.
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