Book - 10, Americanah

Americanah (2013)

by

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Book Read: April 2015

Note Written: 09 July 2015

'Americanah' hooked me right from its first sentence. The novel is very lifelike, light, and close to your heart, even while discussing the various levels and forms of racism that we see around us. The novel invoked many emotions in me, emotions that made me associate with many thins in my life, emotions that were real. Ifemelu and her experiences in America, her longing for home even when she knows life in Nigeria would be very difficult, the new opportunities that are opened up to her in the US, her academic life, her blogs, her struggle of single living, are all very much things people like me can associate with (if not the same, but similar) while living, studying, and working away from home. The realization that you have changed and gained so much- your outlook towards the world, your choices etc,- this realization strikes you and . But back home, where you are supposed to belong, nothing much has changed, you haven't changed for 'them'. Even though you wish to believe and feel that nothing has changed, there is a level of alienation from home that you experience. Americanah made me fall in love with its author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and her works. It has also opened up the world of African Literature in English to me.