The Thing Around Your Neck

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists--a dazzling story collection filled with "indelible characters who jump off the page and into your head and heart" (USA Today).

In these twelve riveting stories, the award-winning Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explores the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, these stories map, with Adichie's signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them.

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240 pages

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kanga
Jan 05, 2023
7/10 stars
Achidie's ability to condense important social issues from an African perspective into a hard hitting short story is something the complacent literary West needs to hear, as the Old Word is being cunningly accessed by one of the most original and perceptive voice from a new generation in a continent surging ahead where the educated class is no longer defined by race.

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