Book Review: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck

Donna Bailey Nurse of The Star reviews the latest short story collection from Orange Broadbrand Prize-winning Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck:

This superior collection accentuates the intellect, insight and blistering honesty that have made Adichie a prominent writer of her generation. Many of the stories in The Thing Around Your Neck contemplate the legacy of Nigerian independence: crime, political corruption, poverty and violence. Others interrogate the gender inequities that restrict the spirit of Nigerian women.

The result is a book impossible to put down. I tore through it like wildfire.

The collection debuts on June 16 and has received glowing advance reviews. Her previous novel Half of a Yellow Sun hauntingly and vividly depicted the Biafran War of the 1960's.