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During the pandemic, four African women in America and Nigeria, a travel writer, a lawyer, a banker and a Guinean housekeeper whose life is upended by an assault, look back on love, friendship and the lives they hoped for.
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Americanah
Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love as teenagers in Lagos; Ifemelu leaves to study in America and discovers race, while Obinze, shut out of the US after 9/11, ends up undocumented in London.
The Interpreters
Five young Nigerian intellectuals home from study abroad, a journalist, an engineer, a lecturer, a painter and a civil servant, meet in the bars of Lagos and Ibadan and try to make sense of the new country.
No Longer at Ease
Obi Okonkwo, grandson of the Okonkwo of Things Fall Apart, comes home to Lagos from England full of ideals, takes a government job and ends up on trial for taking a bribe.
Our Country Friends
A group of friends quarantine together at a Hudson Valley dacha during the pandemic, and the isolation reveals every fault line in their relationships.
Summer Sisters
In 1977 Caitlin Somers, rich and reckless, chooses Victoria Leonard, quiet and from a struggling family in Santa Fe, to spend the summer with her family on Martha's Vineyard, beginning a friendship that runs through the next two decades.
White Ivy
Ivy Lin, raised outside Boston by strict Chinese grandparents and skilled at petty theft, has wanted Gideon Speyer, the golden son of a political family, since they were children, and years later she runs into him again.
A Woman Is No Man
In 1990 Isra, seventeen, is married off in Palestine and taken to live with her husband's family in Brooklyn. In 2008 her daughter Deya, eighteen and under pressure to marry, starts to learn the truth about her mother.
Brooklyn
In the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey leaves her mother and sister in a small Irish town for a job in Brooklyn, where homesickness slowly gives way to a new life and a love affair, until news from home calls her back.
Dominicana
In 1965 Ana Canción, fifteen, is married off by her family to Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, and taken from the Dominican countryside to an apartment in Washington Heights, so that the rest of them can follow.
Purple Hibiscus
Kambili, fifteen, lives a silent, ordered life in Enugu under her father, a rich, devout and violent man, until she and her brother go to stay with their aunt in Nsukka.
My Brilliant Friend
A shoemaker's brilliant daughter in postwar Naples forms an intense friendship that spans sixty years, surviving poverty, violence, ambition, and the changing face of Italy.
Lucy
Lucy, nineteen, leaves Antigua to work as an au pair for a wealthy white family in New York, and is in no mood to be grateful.