I often teach Adichie’s first novel Purple Hibiscus, and pupils really tune into the story of Kambili, her dominating father Eugene, and her transformation when she stays with his sister Ifuemo and her family. Adichie’s story ‘Zikora’ offers plenty of her novels’ pleasures. In a few pages, she manages to give a sense of a much wider life, opening out from the raw immediacy of the opening to a series of different connections, all of which are skilfully drawn.
Amazon Kindle, 2020
A Personal Anthology 