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What do you notice in all of these excerpts? And how does it affect you?
What do you think of the girl?
A girl returns for the first time in 18 years to Nigeria for her grandmothers funeral. While there she recalls how she instigated her brothers death for her and her cousin's benefit. She recalls that summer with vivid clarity and remembers how this caused her parents divorce, her not being able to see her grandmother, cousin or father anymore and her mother's distance after her brother Nonso's death.
"Now, in her most intimate and seamlessly crafted work to date, Adichie turns her penetrating eye on not only Nigeria but America, in twelve dazzling stories that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States." - Book Browse
"Cell One"
"Imitation"
"A Private Experience"
"Ghosts"
"On Monday of Last Week"
"Jumping Monkey Hill"
"The Thing Around Your Neck"
"The American Embassy"
"The Shivering"
"The Arrangers of Marriage"
"Tomorrow Is Too Far"
"The Headstrong Historian"
A well-off medical student named Chika takes refuge with a poor Hausa woman during a riot.
The two women seemingly have nothing in common, apart from the current situation that they are thrown in.
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