UUCY Book Club for January 2017
Copies are available at Yakima Libraries, often in paperback or hard cover and as an ebook, and through Inklings Bookshop with a book club discount.  Discussions will be held every other month, generally on the second Tuesday, along with no-host dinner at 6:00 PM, at Taj Palace restaurant, 2710 W Nob Hill Blvd, Yakima.  All are welcome!

January 10, 2017:  Americanah  by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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.

“[A] knockout of a novel about immigration, American dreams, the power of first love, and the shifting meanings of skin color. . . . A marvel.” —NPR.

 “A steady-handed dissection of the universal human experience. ” —The New York Times Book Review

Quotes from ‘Americanah’:

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