Halfway through Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s intricate third novel, “Americanah,” one of the protagonists makes a case for intricate novels. Ifemelu, a bright, outspoken Nigerian woman living in the ...

Ifemelu, a young woman from Lagos, Nigeria, learns a few things about herself in the course of living and studying in America. For instance: Black girls from Africa don't wear tight shirts. Also: ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's dazzling and thought-provoking new novel, "Americanah," is a wonder: It begins with a Nigerian immigrant waiting to board a train from Princeton to Trenton to have her hair ...

First things first: Can we talk about hair? Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has written a big knockout of a novel about immigration, American dreams, the power of first love, and the shifting ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's fourth book, Americanah, is so smart about so many subjects that to call it a novel about being black in the 21st century doesn't even begin to convey its luxurious heft and ...

Americanah, Adichie's third novel, beat out four other finalists in the fiction category—Someone, the seventh novel by former National Book Award winner and Writing Seminars professor Alice McDermott; ...

What’s as American as the invention of race? Self-invention. So we are reminded by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's engaging third novel, "Americanah." Having spent a good chunk of time living in America as ...