Americanah
2013 · 588 pages
The defining novel of African immigration to America. Ifemelu leaves Lagos for university, discovers there that she is black, and turns the discovery into a blog that flays the country's racial pieties.
★ 5.2
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Interpreter of Maladies
2000 · 208 pages
Nine stories of Indians and Indian Americans living between two countries, told with a calm that makes the losses land late. A married couple confess things to each other during nightly power cuts.
★ 6.3