World View to lead Americanah book discussion

World View staff invite you to join the Employee Forum book club on August 27, 2015 from 12pm-1pm at Bulls Head Book Shop. We will discuss Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. World View staff will lead the discussion and lunch will be provided by the Employee Forum with registration.

The book can be purchased at a special discount online here or in the store at Bulls Head Book Shop. Please email employeeforum@unc.edu if you have special dietary concerns.

Publisher’s description:

A powerful, tender story of race and identity by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun.

Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion—for each other and for their homeland.