![]() "With him, she was at ease her skin felt as though it was her right size." Their connection is easy and electrifying, the stuff of true, once-in-a-lifetime love. "He made her like herself," Ifemelu realises. The more they talk, "hungry to know each other," the more the pair's mutual like deepens, lighting in each of them that hauntingly rare quality, "a self-affection". It was indeed true that because of a male, your stomach could tighten up and refuse to unknot itself, your body's joints could unhinge, your limbs fail to move to music, and all effortless things suddenly become leaden." ![]() ![]() Ifemelu, whose previous experience has been limited to playing at Mills and Boon stories with her friends, suddenly finds she's "jolted by a small truth in those romances. When, in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's new novel Americanah, Obinze and Ifemelu fall in love, they fall hard and fast. ![]()
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