Started reading Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We MFAs have a book club, and this is the one we're reading. I'm only a tenth of the way into it, but it's already excellent. Brilliantly drawn characters, very specific situations. It began with the main character, a Nigerian-born lecturer at Princeton, going into Trenton to get her hair braided. And I was like, "Wow, this is very well-written and well…