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The Thing Around Your Neck

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Thing Around Your Neck

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

51 pages • 1-hour read

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Thing Around Your Neck

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

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  • Summaries & Analyses

    • Plot Summary

    • Background

    • Chapter Summaries & Analyses

      • “Cell One”

      • “Imitation”

      • “A Private Experience”

      • “Ghosts”

      • “On Monday of Last Week”

      • “Jumping Monkey Hill”

      • “The Thing Around Your Neck”

      • “The American Embassy”

      • “The Shivering”

      • “The Arrangers of Marriage”

      • “Tomorrow Is Too Far”

      • “The Headstrong Historian”

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    • Themes

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    • Important Quotes

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