“When I got off the plane in Lagos, I felt like I was no longer black.”

Ifemelu leaves Nigeria to study in Philadelphia. She leaves behind her great love, Obinze, an eternal admirer of America, who intends to join her. But how can you remain yourself when you move to a new country, and when the color of your skin takes on a meaning and importance that you never gave it?

With her irreverent tone, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie waltzes political correctness and offers us a great love story, crossing three continents with a lively and powerful step.