Chimamanda Ngozi's Americanah Summary

This is a summary of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. The book was named one of The New York Times's Ten Best Books of the Year, Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, a Chicago Tribune Best Book,NPR "Great Reads" Book, a Newsday Top 10 Book, a Washington Post Notable Book, a Seattle Times Best Book, a Goodreads Best of the Year, and an Entertainment Weekly Top Fiction pick.

A powerful, tender story of race and identity by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun.

Americanah explores the effects of American culture on the lives of Africans in the United States. The author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, discusses racial and ethnicity issues through Ifemelu and Obinze. The two young Nigerians discover how emotions and relationships become even more complicated as they experience it as Africans in an open society such as the United States and more importantly how they are permanently changed by these experiences.

Available in a variety of formats, this summary is aimed for those who want to capture the gist of the book but don't have the current time to devour all 610 pages. You get the main summary along with all of the benefits and lessons the actual book has to offer. This summary is not intended to be used without reference to the original book.