Book of the Month: A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2020)

2020-12-14T14:13:07-05:00

Book of the Month: A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2020) Critical Evaluation "Barack Obama is as fine a writer as they come. It is not merely that this book avoids being ponderous, as might be expected, even forgiven, of a hefty memoir, but that it is nearly always pleasurable to read, sentence by sentence, the prose gorgeous in places, the detail granular and vivid. From Southeast Asia to a forgotten school in South Carolina, he evokes the sense of place with a light but sure hand.” Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda, "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’," The New York [...]

Book of the Month: A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2020)2020-12-14T14:13:07-05:00

Americanah (2013) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2015-10-01T12:00:11-04:00

Critical Assessment "There are some novels that tell a great story and others that make you change the way you look at the world. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah is a book that manages to do both. "It is ostensibly a love story – the tale of childhood sweethearts at school in Nigeria whose lives take different paths when they seek their fortunes in America and England – but it is also a brilliant dissection of modern attitudes to race, spanning three continents and touching on issues of identity, loss and loneliness." Elizabeth Day, "Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Review," The Guardian, [...]

Americanah (2013) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie2015-10-01T12:00:11-04:00
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