Charity fleamarket find. Some underlinings.
RESERVED because I just spotted it on somebody's wishlist.

Travelling to the USA for some Holiday Gift Giving! Enjoy! :))

Received this wishlist RABCK in the mail the other day. What a lovely surprise! Thank you so much!

This is not the sort of novel I would normally read, but I had heard very good things about it. And indeed, I loved it. It's the story of Ifemelu, a Nigerian woman living in America, contrasted with the experiences of Obinze, her high school sweetheart, as he moves up the ranks in the Nigerian business elite. There's much discussion of race from a point of view I have not encountered often (namely, the non-American Black), a fair amount of culture shock (Nigeria, America, England, and combinations thereof), and complicated relationships. I found Ifemelu particularly compelling, watching her brilliant mind encounter American things alien to her yet familiar to me, and then Nigerian things familiar to her yet alien to me. Perhaps what drew me in most was the fact that I did not feel like there was any commentary on the relative merits of each culture. Neither America nor Nigeria was considered to be "superior". Just different, and explored with such sympathetic and likable characters that I was completely absorbed. Definitely going to have to look up Adichie's other works.

One of the many books given away at the 2018 Gaithersburg Book Festival.

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