As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are leaving country if they can. Ifemulu, beautiful, self assured, departs for America to study. She experiences defeats and triumphs finds and loses relationships and friendship, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home, race.

Obinze, the quiet, thoughtful son of a professor, had hoped to join her, but post 9/11 America will not let him in and he is plunged into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Years later, he is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu, has achieved success as a writer of an eye opening blog about race in America. But when Ifemelu decides to return home, she and Obinze will face the toughest decisions of their lives.

Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story set in today’s globalized world. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s mot powerful and astonishing novel yet.