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Wanjiru Koinange Reviews Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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AmericanahVerdict: carrot

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s writing often fills me with passionate rage and desperate envy. I have said this to anyone who will listen. My time spent reading her work is punctuated with moments, where after reading a section several times over, I will be forced to put the book down, take a deep breath and sometimes a short walk. I am convinced that Adichie is in my head, harvesting thoughts and ideas that I once swore were originally mine, and expressing them with more beauty and completeness than I could ever muster. Alas and behold, the beauty of literature!

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