Adichie visits Dallas

Writing for the Dallas Morning News, Edward Nawotka was able to interview author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who was in Dallas promoting her new book, The Thing Around Your Neck, a collection of short stories about life in Nigeria during times of war and of peace.

"In the West we have constructed a narrative where the wars and poverty are meaningless, with no real political or historical context, which suggests misery is this atavistic thing," she said, "But what gets forgotten is at the same time all this is happening, people are falling in love, people are still living their lives. That is what I'm trying to do with my fiction, to tell the stories with a bit of complexity, with balance. There needs to be balance."

Adichie currently lives in the Washington, DC Metro area and divides her time between Lagos and Maryland.