The Thing Around Your Neck
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Adichie's first collection of short fiction, published in 2009, gathers twelve stories set in Nigeria and in America. Her characters include a young woman who wins the American visa lottery and finds loneliness in her new home, a student caught up in a riot, and wives and daughters facing marriage, family and the gap between the life they expected and the life they find.
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- Barack Obama: “From one of the world’s great contemporary writers comes the story of two Nigerians making their way in the U.S. and the UK, raising universal questions of race and belonging, the overseas experience for the African diaspora, and the search for identity and a home.”