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The Visit

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As a powerful matriarchy reshapes the world, two men - old friends - confront the past and future in a bracing speculative short story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Americanah.

One night in Lagos, two former friends reunite. Obinna is a dutiful and unsophisticated stay-at-home husband and father married to a powerful businesswoman. Eze is single, a cautious rebel from his university days whose arrival soon upsets the balance in Obinna’s life. In a world where men are constantly under surveillance and subject to the whims of powerful women, more than Obinna’s ordered and accustomed routine might be on the line.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Visit is part of Black Stars, a multi-dimensional collection of speculative fiction from Black authors. Each story is a world much like our own. Read or listen to them in a single sitting.

©2021 by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Dystopian Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Science Fiction Women's Fiction Thought-Provoking Short Stories
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This book is about gender roles being reversed. A successful businesswoman and her husband who’s a stay at home husband.

To be honest, I feel like this book was a whirlwind. I didn’t really listen/pay attention to it as I listened to it as an audiobook.

I didn’t think this book really enticed me, being a short book, I think it lacked with detail.

Overall, I wouldn’t read this book again. It was quite disappointing and the plot could have had so much potential.

different/strange one

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Compelling and absorbing short story. I hope it helps people more clearly see and rethink the effects of gender norms.

Thought provoking short story

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I really enjoyed this, the dialogue is genius, thought provoking and sharply witty..I could have listened for longer narration excellent!

So clever

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I was confused at first then got the gist and just thought it was brilliant 🤩 especially as it’s located in Nigeria 🇳🇬

So so soooo good

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An interesting audiobook that turns gender roles around and challenges current stereotypes.

This is recommended.

Short but Delightful

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