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Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieRead about another entry on the list.
In this book, Ms. Adichie has constructed a full-on romance that has the addictive power of a Jane Austen novel but with the specifics of life in Nigeria, as well as life in the United States as an immigrant. I fell in love with Ifemelu and Obinze in a way that I haven’t felt since I was a child reading novels for the first time.
Americanah is among Nada Awar Jarrar's ten favorite books about exile.
--Marshal Zeringue