The Thing Around Your Neck

"There are a couple of pieces that aren't as strong as the rest, but on the whole, this is a very solid collection, with several exquisite stories that will take you to places you didn't know existed."  -  Seattle Times

Now, in her most intimate and seamlessly crafted work to date, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie turns her penetrating eye on not only Nigeria but America, in twelve dazzling stories that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States. 

"Like most of us - but perhaps more so - Adichie’s imagination seems fired by nostalgia for a lost childhood world at least as much as by the challenges of the ever-moving present tense that has swept it so unceremoniously, irretrievably away."  -  Ben Dickinson, Elle

Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, these stories map, with Adichie's signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them. The Thing Around Your Neck is a resounding confirmation of the prodigious literary powers of one of our most essential writers.