I'm currently a little over 200 pages, which is not as far as I would've liked to be by now but still I'm happy with my progress considering its length, and still enjoying it.
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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
Have any of you read her most recent novel Americanah? I tried and failed, to finish it last year and I am wondering how Half of a Yellow Sun compares.
I generally love books that deal in African culture as I spent a good deal of time there doing relief work when I was younger. But I had a hard time caring about the characters.
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Very interesting; which part(s) of Africa were you in, if you don't mind the asking? This is my first Adichie; I'd heard good things about Americanah but your post gives me pause.
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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
My minor complaint is that the story at times was too neatly tied together.
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I think I can sense something like that even from only the part I've read. I'm enjoying the story and writing regardless, but I do sense sometimes a bit of, for lack of a better way to put it, 'this fits neatly into this box'. For instance, so far with the character of Olanna, she fits a bit neatly into the 'beautiful, nice, sympathetic female protagonist' box. Perhaps this may be challenged later as the story progresses, but regardless it still gives me the sense that Adichie likes these tidy, possibly even archetypal, aspects here and there despite the complexity of the book.