![]() ![]() ![]() Obinze is the kind of successful “Big Man” he’d scorned in his youth, and Ifemelu has become an “Americanah”–a different version of her former self, one with a new accent and attitude. ![]() Years later, when they reunite in Nigeria, neither is the same person who left home. Obinze’s journey leads him to back alleys of illegal employment in London to a fake marriage for the sake of a work card, and finally, to a set of handcuffs as he is exposed and deported. Obinze–handsome and kind-hearted–was Ifemelu’s teenage love he’d hoped to join her in America, but post 9/11 America wouldn’t let him in. She feels for the first time the weight of something she didn’t think about back home: race. But what came before is more like a nightmare: wrenching departure from family humiliating jobs under a false name. She seems to have fulfilled every immigrant’s dream: Ivy League education success as a writer of a wildly popular political blog money for the things she needs. Ifemelu–beautiful, self-assured–left Nigeria 15 years ago, and now studies in Princeton as a Graduate Fellow. A searing new novel, at once sweeping and intimate, by the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun: a story of love and race centered around a man and woman from Nigeria who seemed destined to be together–until the choices they are forced to make tear them apart. ![]()
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