Nigerian writer Chmamanda Ngozi Adichie

    2008 MacArthur fellow Chimamanda Adichie has written her third book, “The Thing Around Your Neck,” a collection of short stories of ‘realist fiction’ about the lives of people between Nigeria and the United States. Adichie has received international praise for her 2006 novel, “Half of a Yellow Sun.” Listen to the mp3

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