Americanah

About this book

A searing new novel at once sweeping and intimate by the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun: a story of love and race centred around a man and woman from Nigeria who seemed destined to be together--until the choices they are forced to make tear them apart. Ifemelu--beautiful self-assured--left Nigeria 15 years ago and now studies in Princeton as a Graduate Fellow. Obinze--handsome and kind-hearted--was Ifemelus teenage love; hed hoped to join her in America but post 9/11 America wouldnt let him in. Years later when they reunite in Nigeria neither is the same person who left home. Obinze is the kind of successful "Big Man" hed scorned in his youth and Ifemelu has become an "Americanah"--a different version of her former self one with a new accent and attitude. As they revisit their shared passion--for their homeland and for each other--they must face the largest challenges of their lives.