Things get heated this week as we debate if the plot is problematic, if the ending is problematic, if writing this novel in English is problematic... well you get the gist.

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This week James drinks the haterade while Eyad is moved by the novel: a surprising twist for a book full of them!  We also discuss whether our American sensibilities toward drama/melodrama differ from Adebayo's and giggle about the scene wherein a penis is twisted in a fight between men.  It's a fun episode!

Ayobami Adebayo's Stay With Me was a notable book of the year by The New York Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian and shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize.

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There will be spoilers in this episode as we nitpick the ending and the structure of Americanah, both of which we found to be problematic in parts.  We also discuss whether or not this is a patriotic novel and if Americans are the intended audience.

This is the second book in our Contemporary Nigerian Fiction series.  Other books in this series in clude The Death of Vivek Oji and Stay with Me.

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We're more contrarian than most readers. So how did we feel about Americanah, one of the most celebrated novels of the last decade? All thumbs up!

Join us as we-- per usual-- nitpick a book that we all thought was thoroughly enjoyable.

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Is The Death of Vivek Oji trying to change how transgender people are perceived?  Is it successful in doing so? We talk about these ideas and more in this episode.

This is the first book in our Contemporary Nigerian Fiction series.  We will also review and discuss Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo in forthcoming episodes.

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We kick off our series on Contemporary Nigerian Fiction with Awkwaeke Emezi's second novel The Death of Vivek Oji.  Disguised as a murder mystery, the novel is actually a story of sexual awakening in conservative Nigeria.  We talked about our expectations for the novel and why, ultimately, it left us wanting more.

This is the first episode in our Contemporary Nigerian Fiction series.  We will also review and discuss Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo in forthcoming episodes.

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This week we discuss the different views toward immigration in Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald and The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka.  Is it possible to create a new home in a new country?  Do these novels reveal any shift in attitude toward immigration in America?  Can James ever stop talking about Amy Tan? Join us as we wrap up our series on immigrant literature.

Next week we will begin our series on Contemporary Nigerian Fiction with The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi.

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This week we analyze the first person plural point of view in Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic.  Does it work? How is it different from other works that used this point of view?  We also discuss whether Otsuka was too easy on the white characters in the novel and how she racism and prejudice could have been more problematized in this novel.

This is the last novel in our series on immigration. We previously reviewed and discussed Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera and Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald.  Next week, we will wrap up this series with a discussion on all three of these books.  In two weeks we will begin our series on Contemporary Nigerian Fiction with The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi.

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This week we read Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic.  The book's publisher calls it a historical novel, but is it actually a novel?  Or is it perhaps more like a museum exhibit?  While the topics of Japanese picture wives and Japanese internment are important and should be discussed, should they be presented in this way?  These questions and more in this review.

This is the last book in our series The Im/possibility of a New Home.  We previously discussed Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World and W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz.  Next week, we'll have an in depth discussion of The Buddha in the Attic.

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Home, memory, trauma, time, place.  This week we talk about these ideas and more as we dive into an in-depth discussion of Sebald's Austerlitz.

This is the second novel of our series The Im/possibility of a New Home. Our review and discussion of our first book Signs Preceding the End of the World can be found in our archive.  Next week we will review The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka.

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