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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2013
Novel
Drama, Romance
Americanah is told by a third-person limited narrator who alternates between the perspectives of the characters Ifemelu and Obinze.
The novel Americanah is told primarily in the past tense.
The title Americanah refers to an unflattering term used by Nigerians to describe other Nigerians who have spent time in the United States and come home with annoying American idiosyncrasies, such as carrying water bottles everywhere or complaining about the heat. In speech, the fourth syllable of the word (-ca-) is drawn out.
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