The Thing Around Your Neck

I won this book and I never win anything. I push Half of a Yellow Sun on everyone I see so I was thrilled to see Adichie had a new book coming out and even happier to win a copy.

Thing Around Your Neck is a collection of short stories. Adichie has this way of making you think her characters are people who live right next door to you in America and then sneaking in some little this or that that reminds you her people are African and distinctive. The same and different.

I had to pause after I read each story to let the story sink in. To think about it a little. Now that's good writing.