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008			080922s2009 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2008041271
016			_a20089070895
020			_a9780307271075
050	0	0	_aPR9387.9.A34354 _bT55 2009
050		4	_aPS
055		0	_aPR9387.9 A34354 _bT45 2009
055	0	0	_aPR9387 .9 A34354 _bT45 2009
082	0	0	_aFIC ADI
100	1		_aAdichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-
245	1	4	_aThe thing around your neck _c/ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
250			_a1st North American ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2009.
300			_a218 p. _c; 23 cm.
505	0		_aCell one -- Imitation -- A private experience -- Ghosts -- On Monday of last week -- Jumping monkey hill -- The thing around your neck -- The American embassy -- The shivering -- The arrangers of marriage -- Tomorrow is too far -- The headstrong historian.
520			_aThe stories are set both in the United States and in Nigeria, where things continue to fall apart. A privileged college student gets involved in gang violence; innocent women flee from a bloody riot; some characters are visited by ghosts, while others are haunted by the memory of war. Yet as one character puts it, an easier life in the United States is cushioned by so much convenience that it feels sterile. Relations between the races are awkward at best. The title story probes the emotional gulf between a young immigrant woman and her well-off white American boyfriend. The closing story, "The Headstrong Historian," is a miniature portrait of the colonial legacy in Nigeria.
651		0	_aNigeria _x--Fiction
655		7	_aLove stories
655		7	_aShort stories
942			_cMO
999			_c255115 _d255115