Great African Reads discussion

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won the National Book Critics Circle's Book Award for Fiction.

This was one of my top 5 reads for 2013.

A remarkable storyteller with a keen sense of observation, Adichie’s ambition novel is destined to become a classic of its time. In pitch-perfect tone the book expertly captures the world of Nigerians finding their way within their country and their immigration to the United States and Great Britain, exploring the concept of Blackness in a more universal sense, exploring what bonds us, what separates us and how these threads of sameness and differences are tentative and situational and often complicated by class and status. The most entrancing aspect for me is the Tocqueville-like manner Adichie chronicles the non-American Black experience in America via Ifemelu’s blog entries – what a primer on an outsider looking in the American culture. A witty, warm, thought-provoking tale of how global and insular we are. I expect this book will be on many award lists.