#thelitbit // Americanah

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When O, The Oprah Magazine called this novel masterful, I totally get it and get why I devoured it. 

Insights into a world of American Black and Non-American Black (who weren’t even “Black” until coming to America). On immigration, choicelessness, and assimilation (or not). On the dynamics and interactions across race, class, and gender (whether blatant or not). Explorations and waves of identity. And an indelible first love spanning continents. In other words - read this. 

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Noteworthy excerpts:

"But she had not had a bold epiphany and there was no cause; it was simply that layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her."

"You are in a country that is not your own. You do what you have to do if you want to succeed."

"…all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness."

“The human stories that matter are those that endure.”

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