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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Portraits of Home with Keishel Williams

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4 Sessions Thursdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT February 5 to April 30, 2026

Online via Zoom

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Meeting Dates:
2/5, 3/5, 4/2, 4/30
Online via Zoom

Across her celebrated body of work, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie captures the complexities of identity, migration, and belonging with emotional precision and cultural acuity. In this reading group, we will explore how Adichie maps the journeys of characters who navigate multiple homes—Nigeria, the United States, and everywhere in between—while reckoning with race, gender, history, and grief. Together, we’ll examine how her fiction and nonfiction offer both intimate portraits and wide-ranging critiques of power, diaspora, and selfhood.

Reading List:

Session I: Dream Count
Session II: Americanah
Session III: Notes on Grief
Session IV: The following stories in the collection The Thing Around Your Neck: “Imitation,” “On Monday of Last Week,” “The Thing Around Your Neck,” “The American Embassy,” and “The Arrangers of Marriage”

What to read in advance of the first meeting: Please read Dream Count in its entirety in advance of the first meeting.

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Led by

Keishel Williams

Keishel Williams

Keishel Williams is an editor, writer, professor, and book critic with more than 15 years of experience in journalism and literary publishing. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Pushkin, Literary Hub, the Rumpus, World Literature Today, Business Insider, and other leading outlets. In addition to her journalism, she teaches writing at the college level and works closely with fiction and nonfiction authors to edit, shape, and develop their manuscripts for publication. She’s also an editor for Medgar Evers College’s literary magazine, Crown Heights Review.

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