I am currently reading "The Thing Around Your Neck" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Adichie is an award-winning Nigerian writer. The book consists of 12 short stories about both, life in Nigeria and the life of Nigerian immigrants in other countries (mostly America). Having moved to the US herself at the age of 19, Adichie's first-hand accounts of the situations faced by Nigerian immigrants is realistic and insightful. So far, I have found the book immensely interesting and would definitely recommend it.Adichie's Unoffical Website had an interesting co-incidence listed on it under her biography: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born on 15 September 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria, the fifth of six children to Igbo parents, Grace Ifeoma and James Nwoye Adichie. While the family's ancestral hometown is Abba in Anambra State, Chimamanda grew up in Nsukka, in the house formerly occupied by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe.
