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Imitation

Imitation

from the collection The Thing Around Your Neck
Literary Fiction
Published
2011
Language
English

Synopsis

A Nigerian woman living in America grapples with the complexities of her identity and marriage when her husband's cousin comes to stay. As she navigates cultural differences and personal expectations, she confronts the subtle imitations and authentic expressions within her own life and relationships.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

ReflectiveComplexThought-Provoking
Fish Out of Water

Genres

Literary Fiction

Authors

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Adjoa Andoh

Adjoa Andoh is a British actress and narrator who has voiced many popular audiobooks, including Zadie Smith’s On Beauty. She is a familiar face on stage and screen, working across

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book...