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From Publishers Weekly Adichie (_Half of a Yellow Sun_) stays on familiar turf in her deflated first story collection. The tension between Nigerians and Nigerian-Americans, and the question of what it means to be middle-class in each country, feeds most of these dozen stories. Best known are "Cell One," and "The Headstrong Historian," which have both appeared in the New Yorker and are the collection's finest works. "Cell One," in particular, about the appropriation of American ghetto culture by Nigerian university students, is both emotionally and intellectually fulfilling. Most of the other stories in this collection, while brimming with pathos and rich in character, are limited. The expansive canvas of the novel suits Adichie's work best; here, she fixates mostly on romantic relationships. Each story's observations illuminate once; read in succession, they take on a repetitive slice-of-life quality, where assimilation and gender roles become ready stand-ins for what could be more probing work. (June) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From A country famously known to the West for its e-mail scams, Nigeria is indebted

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Author

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi

Publisher

Vintage Books Canada

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307397904

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories

Rating

4.18 / 5 (420 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14