Americanah

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America--and the search for what it means to call a place home. - From the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun - WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

"An expansive, epic love story."--O, The Oprah Magazine

One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years - A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century

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 that is "dazzling...funny and defiant, and simultaneously so wise." --San Francisco Chronicle

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 05/14/2013
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.52w x 1.56d
ISBN: 9780307271082


Award: ALA Notable Books - Winner
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner
Award: Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence - Finalist
Award: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Finalist
Award: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/25/2013
Booklist 04/01/2013 pg. 18
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2013
Library Journal 05/01/2013 pg. 67
Essence 06/01/2013 pg. 57
Entertainment Weekly 05/17/2013 pg. 76
Shelf Awareness 05/24/2013
New York Times Book Review 06/09/2013 pg. 12
New York Times Book Review 06/16/2013 pg. 28
Books & Culture 11/01/2013 pg. 29
Essence 12/01/2013 pg. 82
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/08/2013 pg. 26
New York Times Book Review 12/15/2013 pg. 12
Entertainment Weekly 12/13/2013 pg. 59
Entertainment Weekly 12/27/2013 pg. 94
Entertainment Weekly 01/24/2014 pg. 21
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2014 pg. 10
Entertainment Weekly 03/07/2014 pg. 69
BookPage 05/01/2013

About the Author
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women's Prize for Fiction "Best of the Best" award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Her most recent work is an essay about losing her father, Notes on Grief, and Mama's Sleeping Scarf, a children's book written as Nwa Grace-James. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.