This author wrote a short story in which a woman decides not to apply for refugee status because she does not wish to describe the murder of her son, entitled "The American Embassy." This author's first novel is narrated by a fifteen-year-old child who falls in love with a p
This author wrote a short story in which a woman decides not to apply for refugee status because she does not wish to describe the murder of her son, entitled "The American Embassy." This author's first novel is narrated by a fifteen-year-old child who falls in love with a priest named Father Amadi and is victimized by her overbearingly religious father Eugene. In addition to writing that novel about Kambili Achike, this author wrote a novel which opens with the narration of Ugwu, who listens to the political conversations between the friends of his employer Odenigbo. One character in that novel sleeps with her sister's lover Richard after she finds out that Odenigbo impregnated a local girl, who gives birth to a child named Baby. That novel by this author is about the sisters Olanna and Kainene, and takes place around the time of the Biafran War. For 10 points, name this contemporary Nigerian author of the short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck as well as the novels Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun.
This author wrote a short story in which a woman decides not to apply for refugee status because she does not wish to describe the murder of her son, entitled "The American Embassy."
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie