• 'She makes storytelling seem as easy as birdsong' (Daily Telegraph)
• 'Stunning. Like all fine storytellers, she leaves us wanting more' (The Times
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  )

Stories

• "Cell One" (first published in The New Yorker
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  ); in which a spoilt brother and son of a professor is sent to a Nigerian prison and ends up in the infamous Cell One.
• "Imitation" (first published in Other Voices) is set in Philadelpha and concerns Nkeml, a young mother whose art-dealer husband visits only 2 months a year. She finds out that his lover has moved in to their Lagos
  Lagos
  Lagos is a port and the most populous conurbation in Nigeria. With a population of 7,937,932, it is currently the third most populous city in Africa after Cairo and Kinshasa, and currently estimated to be the second fastest growing city in Africa...
  
   home.
• "A Private Experience" (first published in Virginia Quarterly Review) in which two women caught up in a riot between Christians and Muslims take refuge in an abandoned shop.
• "Ghosts" (first published in Zoetrope: All-Story
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  ) in which a retired university professor looks back on his life.
• "On Monday of Last Week" (first published in Granta
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   98: The Deep End) in which Kamara, a Nigerian woman who has joined her husband in America takes a job as a nanny to an upper class family and becomes obsessed with the mother.
• "Jumping Monkey Hill" (first published in Granta 95: Loved Ones) is the most autobiographical story, it is set in Cape Town
  Cape Town
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   at a writers retreat where authors from all over Africa gather, and tells of the conflicts experienced by the young Nigerian narrator.
• "The Thing Around Your Neck" (first published in Prospect
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   99) a woman named Akunna gains a sought after American visa and goes to live with her uncle; but he molests her and she ends up working as a waitress in Connecticut
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  Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...
  
  .
• "The American Embassy" (first published in PRISM international
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  ) in which a woman applies for asylum but ends up walking away, unwilling to describe her son's murder for the sake of a visa.
• "The Shivering", set on the campus of Princeton University
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   it concerns a Catholic Nigerian woman whose boyfriend has left her, finding solace in the earnest prayers of a stranger who knocks at her door.
• "The Arrangers of Marriage" (first published as New Husband in Iowa Review) in which a newly married wife arrives in New York
  New York
  New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
  
   with her husband; and finds she is unable to accept his rejection of their Nigerian identity.
• "Tomorrow Is Too Far" (first published in Prospect 118) a young woman reveals the devastating secret of her brother's death.
• "The Headstrong Historian" (first published in The New Yorker) covers the life-story of a woman who believes her husband was killed by his cousins and is determined to regain the inheritance for her son through his education by missionaries.

External links

• "Cell One" online text
• "A Private Experience" online text
• "The Headstrong Historian" online text
• Short, sweet, with a twist: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks stories to Kate Mosse
• How Do You Write a Love Story With Teeth? A conversation with novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• review from the Daily Telegraph
• review from TimesOnline
• review from the New York Times
• review from The Guardian
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