{"id":1332,"date":"2020-07-14T17:07:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T17:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2020-07-14T18:07:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T18:07:11","slug":"thando-khumalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2020\/07\/14\/thando-khumalo\/","title":{"rendered":"Thando Khumalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Americanah<\/em>, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reveals the life of Ifemelu, a young woman who struggles to reconcile her new American way of thinking and the culture of her home country, Nigeria. As a child of Zimbabwean parents myself, I found myself nodding along at certain moments in a way I never have while reading other books. Awkward conversations in African hair salons and tiptoeing around issues with conservative relatives to name a few. Adichie does a wonderful job capturing the experience of the African girl at an American University.<\/p>\n<p>This book might also satisfy your need for love during quarantine. Adichie depicts Ifemelu\u2019s tender first love and allows us a glimpse into how tricky rekindling old love can be. If you are looking to incorporate more Black narratives into reading list, this could be the perfect addition.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note from a Librarian: Thando Khumalo has also curated an <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1bofERXK17GbRzIi_Ah0Xq8gG-dT3YkcQgQ4KUZIBfRA\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">incredible list of books by and about Black people<\/a>, please check it out for further reading recommendations! <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reveals the life of Ifemelu, a young woman who struggles to reconcile her new American way of thinking and the culture of her home country, Nigeria. As a child of Zimbabwean parents myself, I found myself nodding along at certain moments in a way I never have while reading other &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2020\/07\/14\/thando-khumalo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thando Khumalo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}