Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been
translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various
publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta,
The O. Henry Prize Stories, Financial Times, and Zoetrope:
All-Story. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which
won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy
Award; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s
Prize for Fiction “Winner of Winners” award; Americanah, which won
the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The
Thing Around Your Neck; and the essays We Should All Be Feminists
and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions,
both national bestsellers. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship,
she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.
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“Dazzling. . . . Funny and defiant, and simultaneously so wise. . .
. Brilliant.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“A very funny, very warm and moving intergenerational epic that
confirms Adichie’s virtuosity, boundless empathy and searing social
acuity.” —Dave Eggers, author of A Hologram for the King
“Masterful. . . . An expansive, epic love story. . . . Pulls no
punches with regard to race, class and the high-risk, heart-tearing
struggle for belonging in a fractured world.” —O, The Oprah
Magazine
“[A] knockout of a novel about immigration, American dreams, the
power of first love, and the shifting meanings of skin color. . . .
A marvel.” —NPR
“A cerebral and utterly transfixing epic. . . . Americanah is
superlative at making clear just how isolating it can be to live
far away from home. . . . Unforgettable.” —The Boston Globe
“Witheringly trenchant and hugely empathetic . . . a novel that
holds the discomfiting realities of our times fearlessly before us.
. . . A steady-handed dissection of the universal human
experience.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Adichie is uniquely positioned to compare racial hierarchies in
the United States to social striving in her native Nigeria. She
does so in this new work with a ruthless honesty about the ugly and
beautiful sides of both nations.” —The Washington Post
“Gorgeous. . . . A bright, bold book with unforgettable swagger
that proves it sometimes takes a newcomer to show Americans to
ourselves.” —The Dallas Morning News
“Americanah tackles the U.S. race complex with a directness and
brio no U.S. writer of any color would risk.” —The
Philadelphia Inquirer
“So smart about so many subjects that to call it a novel about
being black in the 21st century doesn’t even begin to convey its
luxurious heft and scope. . . . Capacious, absorbing and original.”
—Jennifer Reese, NPR
“Superb . . . Americanah is that rare thing in contemporary
literary fiction: a lush, big-hearted love story that also happens
to be a piercingly funny social critique.” —Vogue
“A near-flawless novel.” —The Seattle Times
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