Imitation: From the Collection The Thing Around Your Neck

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Overview

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” selection from the award-winning, bestselling author

Nkem is living a life of wealth and security in America, until she discovers that her husband is keeping a girlfriend back home in Nigeria. In this high-intensity story of passion and the masks we all wear, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of the acclaimed novels Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah and winner of the Orange Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, explores the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States.

“Imitation” is a selection from Adichie’s collection The Thing Around Your Neck. 

An eBook short.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101912294
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/13/2015
Series:	A Vintage Short
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	24
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Best of the Best” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Her most recent work is an essay about losing her father, Notes on Grief, and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a children’s book written as Nwa Grace-James. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.