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It's a great story, but it's also a great meditation of issues related to race, gender, and immigrant experiences. A must read!
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This book thoughtfully and elegantly explores the ambivalence of leaving home, and of returning to it. Our protagonist is a young woman of great promise who leaves Nigeria for opportunity, American style. Her first love does the same; he goes to London. Americanah tackles Big Issues like race, class, racism, classism, first love, natural hair, fitting in, blogs, self-satisfied intellectual chatter, and academia. The chatter and the blogs bored me; hence four stars instead of 5.
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