Chimamanda ngozi adichie biography summary

2013 novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Not to be confused with Don DeLillo's novel Americana (novel), or Hampton Sides's book Americana (Sides book).

Americanah is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S.

National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.^[1]Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university. The novel traces Ifemelu's life in both countries, threaded by her love story with high school classmate Obinze.

It was Adichie's third novel, published on May 14, 2013, by Alfred A. Knopf.

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Summary

Americanah is about Ifemelu and Obinze who, as teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, fall in love. Nigeria at the time is under military dictatorship, and people are seeking to leave the country.

Ifemelu moves to the United States to study, where she struggles for the first time with racism and the many varieties of racial dis