Set in Cape Town at a writers' retreat where authors from all over Africa gather, it tells of the conflicts experienced by the young Nigerian narrator. " Jumping Monkey Hill" (first published in Granta 95: Loved Ones) is the most autobiographical story." On Monday of Last Week" (first published in Granta 98: The Deep End), in which Kamara, a Nigerian woman who has joined her husband in America, takes a job as a nanny to an upper-class family and becomes obsessed with the mother." Ghosts" (first published in Zoetrope: All-Story), in which a retired university professor looks back on his life.It is told in a third-person narrative so that readers are put in an omniscient position to understand this idea. This story highlights the friendliness and peace between two women with different religions, and makes the point that regardless of someone's religious beliefs, or their ethnic background, we are all ultimately human. " A Private Experience" (first published in Virginia Quarterly Review), in which two women caught up in a riot between Christians and Muslims take refuge in an abandoned shop.She finds out that his lover has moved into their Lagos home. " Imitation" (first published in Other Voices) is set in Philadelphia and concerns Nkem, a young mother whose art-dealer husband visits only two months a year." Cell One" (first published in The New Yorker), in which a spoilt brother and son of a professor is sent to a Nigerian prison and ends up in the infamous Cell One. Like all fine storytellers, she leaves us wanting more" ( The Times). "She makes storytelling seem as easy as birdsong" ( Daily Telegraph) It received many positive reviews, including: The Thing Around Your Neck is a short-story collection by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, first published in April 2009 by Fourth Estate in the UK and by Knopf in the US.
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