The Thing Around Your Neck

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Amazon rank: #9,971
Price: $7.50
bound: 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor; 1 edition (June 1, 2010)
Language: English

ISBN-10: 0307455912
ISBN-13: 978-0307455918
Weight: 9.1 ounces

The Thing Around Your Neck Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

She is interested in how public events affect private lives, and even more interested in how clashes between tradition and modernity, familial expectations and imported dreams affect relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children.The New York Times Michiko Kakutani Adichie is keenly aware of the particular burdens that come with literary success for an immigrant writer, a so-called hyphenated American“They spoke Igbo and ate garri for lunch and it was like home," recalls the girl, “until your uncle came into the cramped basement where you slept and pulled you forcefully to him, squeezing your buttocks, moaning… And you remembered what he said, that America was give-and-take." Taking the traditional American escape route of the Greyhound bus, the girl ends up in a small town in Connecticut, working in a restaurant, turning an outsider’s eye on the oddness of American life, rendered silent and invisible by loneliness: “At night, something would wrap itself around your neck, something that very nearly choked you before you fell asleep." A love affair with a restaurant customer seems to offer the dream of a happy ending: love, intimacy, security: “The thing that nearly choked you before you fell asleep, started to loosen, to let go"Then She DiedIn both [the UMany are helpless because of their plight in AmericaIt was a tacit agreement among all of us, the survivors of BiafraThese phrases also criticize the Christians missionary agenda that sews the seeds of discontent among NigeriansThe secret is not one of content or style (though Adichie is a stylist of deceptively effortless grace who seems to manipulate language almost invisibly, so that it is only later that her careful craftsmanship becomes apparent)The very fine "Jumping Monkey Hill" and the title story both show Nigerian women confronting white expectationsIn these stories set both in Nigeria and in the USA, she touches on religion, corruption, Nigeria's civil war and living in America as a lonely African wifeThat life lacks passion, vibrancy and intensity is often highlighted in comparisons between America and NigeriaA few of the stories in the collection even feature gay characters, a no-no in African literature They want to melt into AmericaAlfred ALiterary devices: Food becomes a symbol of assimilation: the husband prefers pizza, Macdonalds, supermarkets, frozen meat and diet pepsiIn the dozen stories in The Thing Around Your Neck, Adichie writes with great sensitivity of the struggles of Nigerian immigrants to forge an identity in the modern world without discarding the values of their culture of originDespite the obstacles and the hardship, the characters do survive 064a88f820

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