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Americanah: A novel
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Author:
Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013
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10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • 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
 
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
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Street Date:
05/14/2013
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ISBN:
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Lexile measure:
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. (2013). Americanah: A novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. 2013. Americanah: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Americanah: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013.

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