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The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Thing Around Your Neck Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ebook
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Page: 240
ISBN: 9780307271075
Format: pdf

Book review of The thing around your neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Chimamanda Adichie's short stories in her collection The Thing Around Your Neck use unconventional means of telling her main characters' stories. Such an author never disappoints her readers. Adichie gives such insight into Nigeria. There is no better way of getting under the skin of a society than by reading it's literature. Palm Sunday – already reads like the first story of her short stories collection 'The Thing Around Your Neck'. The similarities are stark and tedious: Peugeot 504, a girl (Kambili Achike) with a brother, mother and father. Akunna is a young girl from Lagos, who immigrates to the US after winning the American Visa lottery. Being a best selling author is a bonus but the real gem for any good author lies in the one's talent and his or her ability to remain faithful to it. The thing around your neck is a short story of a girl named Akunna. Bu tone day she wins the American visa lottery, and her reward is to get to go to America. She lives in Lagos in a poor family. The Thing Around Your Neck - the challenges of being an immigrant. As I mentioned in my last post, I recently attended an event at the Tenement Museum featuring Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Reese's and "The Thing Around Your Neck" to round out a long week.