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Americanah:
Why is this book so popular when it is a lengthy, rambling mess of stories interspersed with lectures about race, society and culture? What happened to the idea of a great STORY, characters the reader can care about, conflict, rising action, etc.???
Yoana
Because people like different things. Some of us care about race, society and culture and love to see them interwoven in fiction.
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