Rated of 5
by Sky Action, great plot and characters - it has it all
A little slow getting into the real story but, OMG! - once it starts to move, I wasn't able to put it down - meaning several late nights when I should have turned out the light but couldn't.
The women in this story are incredible. It is hard to believe a man wrote it. Every man would want a wife like Marlene and a daughter like Lucy.
The bad guys were truly idiot-bad - and the good guys were always on the edge of being bad. It was just SO GOOD.
Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story set in today's globalized world.
The story of an American family, middle class in middle America, ordinary in every way but one. But that exception is the beating heart of this extraordinary novel.
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