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Americanah (Ala Notable Books for Adults)

The bestselling novel—a love story of race and identity—from the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

(4 total)

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (4)

“Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing, Novels, Meaning, purpose

“She wanted to tell him, “There is no week that passed that I did not think of you.” But was that true? Of course there were weeks during which he was folded under layers of her life, but it felt true.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Relationships, Life, Distance, Heartbreak

“She found it so attractive, his shortness, his solid firm shortness. She saw, in his shortness, a groundedness; he could weather anything, he would not easily be swayed.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Relationships, strength, self

“She found this foolishly exciting, that it was raining where she was and it was not raining where he was, only minutes from her, and so she waited, with impatience, with a charged delight, until they could both see the rain together.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Distance, Nature, Relationships