Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the west. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. At once powerful and tender, Americanah is a remarkable novel of race, love, and identity by the award winning writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Bookring order:

1. valpete (California)
2. msjoanna (Missouri) -----> RABCK to BooksnMusic as of 1/21/2020 (book stalled here since 2016)
3.Bulan-Purnama (Oregon)
4. z-bird (S.Carolina)
5. grubsneerg (Pennsylvania)

controlled release to valpete as part of bookring.

Thanks for sending this book. I've heard good things about it. I'm surprised not more people have joined this Ring. It will definitely be a while before I get to it, but I do promise to read it and then journal it.

Loved this book. Sending this along as a RABCK! Enjoy!

A wonderful book! A commentary on a black immigrant from Nigeria and all the hardships she faces and overcomes. It's a love story, too!

I'll be sending this to a BCer with this book on her Wishlist.

Fantastic! I loved Purple Hibiscus by this author. Thanks for sending.

Oh dear! I just saw that this is supposed to have been a bookring. How dreadful...I completely stalled this out. I'll try to figure out what to do with this copy at this point.

People have complained that a lot of this book is an essay on race with characters thrown in. That's not an unfair assessment, but I thought the essay on race was quite interesting and I fell in love with these characters. I know very little about Nigerian immigrants. I haven't read many of their stories. This book captures the perspective of a person moving to the United States from Nigeria and experiencing the US from that outsider's perspective. It also gives the feelings of returning home after a period of immigration. The home country looks different through ex-pat eyes.

Adichie is a skilled writer and storyteller. She is able to describe people adeptly and bring alive side characters who are unfamiliar yet completely familiar to this white reader who has never been to Nigeria.

RABCK to BooksnMusic, who had it on a wishlist.

Thank you for sending this, I appreciate it

On my list to read before the end of the year.

Written from the point of view of a Nigerian college student who comes to America to study. It must be very difficult to come to another country for school or to immigrate. So our main character finally finds her voice in America by writing a race blog. She goes back to Nigeria, which also requires a bit of mental readjusting, but again she starts writing and blogging as a grown Nigerian woman and finds her voice again. It is interesting reading, written by a woman who is brave enough to say what she thinks.

I am passing this book along to Adrienne10.

Mailed to Adrienne10.

This arrived on Friday! Thank you for this RABCK! I'm looking forward to reading it.