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NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sunthe story of two Nigerians making their way in the U.S. and the UK, raising universal questions of race, belonging, the overseas experience for the African diaspora, and the search for identity and a home.

Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passionfor each other and for their homeland.

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10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION NATIONAL BESTSELLER A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in Americaand the search for what it means to call a place home. From the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

"An expansive, epic love story."O, The Oprah Magazine

One of the New York Timess 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One of The Atlantics Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be Black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.

At once powerful and tender, Americanah is a remarkable novel that is "dazzlingfunny and defiant, and simultaneously so wise." San Francisco Chronicle

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Americanah

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