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The Shivering
The Shivering | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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A Vintage Shorts Short Story Month Selection On the day a plane crashed in Nigeria, Ukamaka lets into her apartment a neighbor in a Princeton sweatshirt shed never met before to keep her company and pray. United in a common loss, Ukamaka is glad to have someone she can confide in about her home, her ex-boyfriend, her life as a graduate student in the United States, and her ambitions. But, in her eagerness to discover a new friend in Chinedu, Ukamaka is slow to realize the tragic and desperate secrets he is protecting from her. In this poignant, stirring short depicting the solitary lives that immigrants face in the United States, acclaimed author of Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie celebrates faith and the fragile ties that can grant salvation. An ebook short.
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tessavi
The Shivering (A Vintage Short) | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Panpan

An interesting setting but that's it. The story itself fell flat and I forgot most of it after finishing it.

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Booksandtea23
The Shivering | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Yay 😀🎉 I finally finished my Good Reads Challenge for this year 📚📖

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Booksandtea23
The Shivering | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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I really enjoyed this story. I thought how the two main characters came together to become friends was very empowering. Also it does teach you that everyone is golf through something and you cannot just look at your own problems and think the whole world revolves around what is going on in your life especially because for some people there are much higher stakes.

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Jess7
The Shivering | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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This short story was just so-so. It had potential to be a pick, but it fell short, and the story, while compelling, felt unfinished. #BookReview #JPBookReview #KindleDeal #ebook #deal #sale - #Shortstories #riotgram

“In this poignant, stirring short depicting the solitary lives that immigrants face in the US, acclaimed author... Chimamanda Ngozi #Adichie celebrates faith and the fragile ties that can grant salvation. An ebook short.” -Amazon

MichelleScott_author I liked her book Americanah, but it did move slowly. 6y
Jess7 I LOVED her short book, We Should All Be Feminists @Coffeeshopreviews 6y
MichelleScott_author @Jess7 I‘ll have to read that one. 6y
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BookishMarginalia
The Shivering | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Who knew Adichie had written a short story for The New York Times that portrays Melania Trump as a Mrs Dalloway type? Not me! I found that out while reading an Atlantic piece about Melania -- Here's the link to the Adichie story (which is really good and strangely prescient): http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/books/review/melania-trump-in-chimamanda-ngozi... (I tagged another of her short stories) -- + the article👇🏼

BookishMarginalia The Atlantic essay, "On Pitying Melania," was written by Megan Garber and published yesterday: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/01/on-pitying-melania/514... (edited) 7y
babsbourland Oh I was dying when that essay came out. Please let there be more political satire in her future, because she absolutely nailed it. 7y
LeahBergen I just bookmarked it. I read the first few paragraphs and KNEW I had to save it to enjoy later. Thanks! 7y
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saresmoore Awesome! Thanks for sharing this! 7y
LeslieO Adichie's short story is fantastic. 7y
OrangeMooseReads I started it and will finish it later so far it's good 7y
Bookish.Heart Can't wait to read this!! 7y
cariashley This was so good!! 7y
meggofrank Oooh 7y
minkyb Thank you!!!! 7y
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