The Thing Around Your Neck Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Akunna is a young girl from Lagos, who immigrates to the US after winning the American Visa lottery. THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK (BY CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE). In The Thing Around Your Neck, a young girl goes to live in America with her uncle, after winning the Green Card lottery. Chimamanda is a very accessible writer. So, when I spotted her latest book of short stories, The Thing Around Your Neck, at my local library, I snapped it up. Chimamanda Adichie's short stories in her collection The Thing Around Your Neck use unconventional means of telling her main characters' stories. In The Thing Around Your Neck, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gives us twelve insightful short stories that take readers deep inside Nigerian culture as well as to the intersection where Nigerian and American cultures collide. I started reading Adichie's Purple Hibiscus a couple of years back, but given my mental state then, I couldn't stand the distressing nature of the story and abandoned it half-way. €I've always felt one step removed from things because I've always felt I've been watching. Reviewed by Jennifer Makumbi Adichie's collection of short stories focuses majorly on women's experiences – how being a woman shapes the world around them and how it impacts their lives. There is no better way of getting under the skin of a society than by reading it's literature. Reflections: The Thing Around Your Neck. Adichie gives such insight into Nigeria. The Thing Around Your Neck - the challenges of being an immigrant. When her uncle makes a pass at her, she runs away, and tries to make a life for herself.