Ep 284 - Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah is about a lot of things—it's a love story, it's an immigrant story, it's a story about the Obama moment—but it has the most to say about race. It's about being black in America, but not from the perspective of a black American. It's about how race works in different cultures, and among different people from the same culture. It's about hair. And it's a fascinating read, every step of the way.

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0:00.0	This is a head gum podcast.
0:06.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.3	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.5	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	It feels like it was two years ago and those two years have been nothing but screaming.
0:51.8	It's been a lot of screaming here in Philadelphia.
0:54.4	Welcome to Overdoot's a podcast about the books you've been meeting to read.
0:57.0	My name is Craig.
0:58.0	My name is Andrew.
0:59.0	And for the last week, the city of brotherly love has been the city of love and the
1:04.1	eagles because the eagles filled out the eagles one is removable.
1:07.8	We've been tweaked about eagles.
1:10.0	Wait, I don't know what you mean.
1:11.6	I don't know who did that.
1:14.0	The Twitter account tweeted about eagles.
1:16.1	Yeah, I hear our Twitter account is a big fan of eagles.
1:19.1	I don't have anything else to say about this except that I was not expecting to be this
1:23.8	invested in this game of American football.
1:26.1	Yeah.
1:27.1	And I think the thing to think about with how much the city has been invested in this
1:32.0	particular game of American football, i.e. the Super Bowl, is it's one of those things
1:36.9	where like when no one experiences something for 50 years and that becomes like a thing
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