Americanah

Yes. This is great writing. This is how I want to write. I related very much to Ifemelu, since we are both writers and we are sometimes insecure about writing and what others will think of it. I could not point to enough passages in this that resonated with me and feelings/thoughts I've had, but here's an example of one:

...a part of her always stiffened with apprenhension, expecting the person on the other end to realize that she was play-acting this professional, this negotiator of terms, to see that she was, in fact, an unemployed person who wore a rumpled nightshirt all day, to call her “Fraud!” and hang up.