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Jul 04, 2023CareyMacaulay rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I loved this story of Ifemelu and Obinze. Their families. Their friends. Their country of Nigeria. Their Igbo language. Their hair (there is so much to learn about hair!) Their immigrant experience story. Their coming home story. Their…
Jun 28, 2023HPL_Teen_Volunteer3 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a powerful book in our day and time as it explores the complexities of identity, race, and belonging. The story revolves around Ifemelu, a young Nigerian who moves to the States for her education.…
Jun 02, 2023anatakwala rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Not really sure what the protagonist of this story is... Is she an ambitious woman who is focused on her career? That's what it sounds like in the beginning. Then she falls into serial romances, blowing up each of them for reasons…
Nov 17, 2022HooeyB rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Hum, too up and down, in and out, contradictory characters, then boom it ends
Sep 06, 2022Keeper_of_the_Book_Hoard rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
A thoughtful & well-written story. Simultaneously a love story and a work of "against the grain" anthropology, Adichie makes compelling characters who reflect on and illustrate the misconceptions between America and Africa. She gives US…
Oct 28, 2021dirtbag rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
I love this author but not this book. I don't understand why two people who loved each other and were so seemingly equal in every way in Africa could totally write each other off once they left their country. She left and ghosted him. That…
Jul 06, 2021DPLryaf rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Last year, my book club read a debut novel called Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams about a twenty-something British-Jamaican woman navigating her young career, men, and mental health in Brixton (a Jamaican enclave south of London). A…
Apr 10, 20215066HawkC rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I have written over 200 restaurant reviews but this is my first book review. I enjoyed the book that much I felt compelled to write a review and share. In short, this is the kind of book you can surprisingly concentrate on and read…
Apr 01, 2021jackhwolf rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
I read this at about the same time as her earlier Half A Yellow Sun which I much preferred. The same great writing style came through, but with Half which took place in Nigeria, I felt she was on more familiar ground. I think the…
Feb 09, 2021Trixie_reads rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I really enjoyed the first 2/3 of the book, but then felt like I was slogging through, forcing myself to finish because everyone thought this book was so great. I wanted to think it was great too. I felt so awful for Ifemelu when she was…
Dec 18, 2020Chapel_Hill_KrystalB rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This audiobook was a serendipitous find on NC Digital Library. I checked out the print version some years ago, but it was still at the height of its popularity with a looong waitlist. No way I can get through a nearly 500-pager in two…
Oct 15, 2020
A fun read
Aug 10, 2020alecbussott rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
An examination of race in America from a unique perspective.
May 20, 2020mfilipovic73 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Beautiful and masterful! I loved this novel and had to take several days to process it all. It successfully weaves a multilayered story and pays homage to real struggle of being uprooted, being an immigrant, being black and to finding…
Feb 26, 2020VaughanPLDavidB rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Though I didn't intend to, as soon as I started reading this book, I was comparing it to Will Ferguson's 419. I didn't much like 419 at the time I read it, and now I like it even less. I'm not sure how Ferguson could ever have presumed…
Dec 20, 2019OPL_AnnaW rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
An immigration story, a love story, and an exploration of race and identity, this book covers a lot of bases. Adichie crafts such captivating characters that I had a hard time putting this book down.
Nov 22, 2019
Great book
Oct 30, 2019
Became one of my personal favorites. Immigration and the conflict regarding the juxtaposition of cultures... plus such a real story. I have to admit I hated the very end, but that's just me wanting to argue with Ifemelu. So if you want a…
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Sep 24, 2019bookpusher rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
September WPL book club selection: This book was 800 pages of boring.....I didn't care for any of the characters. I didn't like the lying. And so many hard to pronounce names!!
Sep 18, 2019CedarMill_TeenCouncil rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Americanah is about a girl from Lagos, Nigeria who meets a boy named Obinze. They fall in love time and time again yet never seem to get their wants aligned with each other. She ends up going to college with him and then gets a offer to go…
Aug 26, 2019
Tea & Talk Book Club / September 2019
Aug 08, 2019Walter724 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this book. The characters were well-developed and I liked the writing style. She has become an author I look for. I recommend this as a good read!
Jul 17, 2019
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Jun 12, 2019hannahkateriss rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I enjoyed reading a book that showed a perspective of Black Americans through the eyes of a continental African. While the story itself is relatively interesting, I did not want to root for the narrator which made it less enjoyable to…
Apr 06, 2019pokano rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Engrossing novel about a Nigerian woman who confronts race for the first time when she comes to the United States as a student. Her insights into American racial issues offer an often provocative and always thoughtful look from the outside…