Friends are dress shopping in the novel “Americanah”; when they get to the register, the cashier asks which of two saleswomen helped them, but they’re not sure. She lists numerous physical ...

Ifemelu, a young woman from Lagos, Nigeria, learns a few things about herself in the course of living and studying in America. For instance: Black girls from Africa don't wear tight shirts. Also: ...

In awarding the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Americanah,” we recognize a novel that engages with important ideas about race, and does so with style, wit ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's dazzling and thought-provoking new novel, "Americanah," is a wonder: It begins with a Nigerian immigrant waiting to board a train from Princeton to Trenton to have her hair ...

Americanah, Adichie's third novel, beat out four other finalists in the fiction category—Someone, the seventh novel by former National Book Award winner and Writing Seminars professor Alice McDermott; ...

When someone asks Ifemelu, the intelligent and witty protagonist of Americanah, about the book she is reading, she thinks, "Why did people ask 'What is it about?' as if a novel had to be about only ...

Friends are dress shopping in the novel “Americanah”; when they get to the register, the cashier asks which of two saleswomen helped them, but they’re not sure. She lists numerous physical ...

All her life Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been writing in the shadow of an African literary giant. But Chinua Achebe’s gone now, and it is Adichie’s turn to stake her claim as Nigeria’s pre-eminent ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the author of a handful of works, including the novel "Half of a Yellow Sun," which won the Orange Prize, and the recent novel, "Americanah." Adichie appears in Houston ...