![]() ![]() ![]() It is a place and a society where, as a vivacious “aunty” remarks, “he problem is that there are many qualified people who are not where they are supposed to be because they won’t lick anybody’s ass, or they don’t know which ass to lick or they don’t even know how to lick an ass.” Ifemelu’s high school sweetheart, Obinze, is too proud for any of that smart and scholarly, he has been denied a visa to enter post-9/11 America (says his mother, “he Americans are now averse to foreign young men”), and now he is living illegally in London, delivering refrigerators and looking for a way to find his beloved. Ifemelu, beautiful and naturally aristocratic, has the good fortune to escape Nigeria during a time of military dictatorship. ![]() A sensitive portrayal of distant love, broken affinities and culture clash by Nigerian novelist Adichie ( Purple Hibiscus, 2003, etc.).Ībsence makes the heart grow fonder, it’s said-but as often it makes the heart grow forgetful. ![]()
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