I started to enjoy Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s
Americanah about 1/3rd way in and was glad I’d stayed with the
rather tedious beginning where the balance of background and a forward moving
story felt wrong.
Adichie writes wonderful prose with
forensic observations and in this book her ability to unpick personal
narratives shines. She captures the push and pull of contemporary society in an
authentic way and her characters are rooted in reality.
In and out of the shadows were the
ideological excursions that just too often felt as if they had been directly
drawn from essay’s on racial politics in 21C. What was written
needs to be written but in a work of fiction the approach needs to be more in
tune with the rest of the book.
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