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The Thing Around Your Neck

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Sep 21, 2015 D rated it it was amazing

Delightful prose with tears-in-the-eyes stories.

He asked your name and said Akunna was pretty.

Extra-virgin olive oil was the only thing you loved, truly loved, in America.

You did not know that people could simply choose not to go to school, that people could dictate to life. You were used to accepting what life gave, writing down what life dictated.

She wanted to interrupt and tell him how unnecessary it was, this bloodying and binding, this turning faith into a pugilistic exercise; to tell him t ...more

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Jun 07, 2015 amma.keep.reading rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: readsoullit, for-or-from-kofi, mama-africa, mine-all-mine, immigrant-stories, 2015-completed-reads, summer-reading-2015

If you've never read any of her books or seen/heard her TED talks, please start with this book. ...more

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Oct 11, 2014 Jamie Jones Hullinger rated it liked it

While I did enjoy this I couldn't help but notice several similarities between the short stories and Americanah which I have read back to back. The stories are powerful and introduce a world I know very little about.

My favorite story was the last entitled "Headstrong Historian". ...more

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