Americanah

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

First published 1969 · 592 pages

About this book

Americanah is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university. The novel traces Ifemelu's life in both countries, threaded by her love story with high school classmate Obinze.

  • Nigerians
  • Immigrants
  • Refugees
  • African-Americans
  • literary fiction
  • African-American fiction
  • cultural heritage
  • Fiction

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