Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Pub. Date
[2015].
Description
In this personal, eloquently-argued essay-adapted from her much-admired TEDx talk of the same name-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Americanah, offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable authors exploration of what it...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
An exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father's death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. As one of millions of people grieving this year, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
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CSL - Black Authors
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
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CSL - Woman Authors
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Longer Book Club Reads
CSL - Woman Authors
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"A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected"-- provided by publisher.
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Description
Bringing together reporting, profiles, memoir and criticism from The New Yorker to present a bold and complex portrait of black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies, political vision, and artistic inspiration throughout history.
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
From a Nigerian boy's friendship with his family's former houseboy to a sweatship girl's experience as a sister wife, from love and murder on the frontier to a meltdown in academe, these stories, for Díaz, have the economy and power to "break hearts bones vanities and cages."