Americanah

This was so wonderful that I don't have anything original or insightful to say about it. It's a very complex novel, but two of the blurbs summarize it nicely for me: the reviewer at the SF Chronicle said it was “dazzling....Funny and defiant, and simuntaneously so wise....Brilliant,” and NPR's reviewer commented, “[A] knockout of a novel about immigration, American dreams, the power of first love, and the shifting meanings of skin color....A marvel.” I've been listening to the BBC World News podcast lately, and I think the non-US-centric perspective is good for me as an American listener. I loved this novel for similar reasons; Adichie casts her critical and also lyrical eye on the world from a fully intersectional perspective, considering race, class, immigration status, culture, location within cultures, language, gender, and more. I feel enriched for having read it, and it was beautiful.