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AMERICANAH by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

by The Bushwick Book Club

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Karen Kuhl - Blue for You 04:53
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Jim Flynn - AMERICANAH 04:04 video
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Krystal Hawes - The Gap 02:23 video
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Where is the gap, between us Is it the way I wear my hair Or say a phase Exciting in so many ways Where is the gap between us Where is the gap Where is the gap Where is the trap That saps my energy It's pulling you from me They call it R-A-C-E or ethnicity I dunno, I dunno, I dunno Where is the gap, between us Is it the way I wear my hair Or say a phase Exciting In so many ways Where is the gap between us Where is the gap Where is the gap Now I'm calling out And I'm turning in I cannot deny the skin I'm in And I'm crying out It's inevitable If you cannot see the walls in front of you So I seek the gap between us Is it the way I wear my hair Or say a phase Exciting In so many ways Where is the gap between us Where is the gap Where is the gap
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Jessie Kilguss - Oh How Mysterious We Are 02:42 video
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She bristles at the small talk With the woman who braids her hair While far off in some basement somewhere Dike is gasping for air Race never existed Before she moved to America Now it dogs her every move The elephant in the room She’d like not to think about it But she doesn’t have that luxury The weight in Dike’s words When he says the President is black like me Oh how mysterious we are Propelled by a dream to wander far And pulled back ever ceaselessly to what we know is ours Oh how mysterious we are Every step she takes in this foreign place (Bm, A, D,Bm) She holds up against the past Thinks of Obinze’s face Obinze’s face She waited with impatience With a charged delight Until they could watch the Rain together When he could stay the whole night (possibly adding another verse here but possibly not:: sometimes things fall apart just to come back together and the people we grow up with are the ones we love forever) Oh how mysterious we are Propelled by a dream to wander far And pulled back ever ceaselessly to what we know is ours Oh how mysterious we are
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Janelle Lawrence - AMERICANAH 04:24
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John S. Hall - A Hundred Dollars 04:45 video
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Juliet Garrett - The In Between 03:46 video
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Swan Drsti - Poem 01:33 video
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Charlie Nieland - Strange Familiar 04:12 video
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Iyvon Edebiri - Reading for AMERICANAH 13:01 video
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Susan Hwang - Eating in AMERICANAH 05:13 video
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Being allowed to make omelettes only on the weekends Just so they can pretend his onugbu soup isn’t better than hers. She made reconciliatory pancakes that didn’t work. Those kids think the seedless oranges are right. They don’t know the ones split by lovers in the middle of the night A white man at key food might criticize your tostitos. The waiter is annoyed that you want real potatoes. The days of over-spiced coconut rice when she imagined ginger on lips and yellow curry licked, but he would not do things improbably. He had a firm reed of goodness where his spine should be. Since when did you become a they have things we can eat kind of person. An act of rebellion was eating non organic chocolate. Since when did you become they have things we can eat kind of person. He eats whole wheat croissants and grains with names she’ll always get wrong like bulgar and quinoa because they have protein. He knows which vegetables have the most carotene, A plate of chin-chin will made him homesick. She imagined ginger on lips and yellow curry licked. That guy didn’t have a spine but a firm reed of goodness There was that time he ate a semen sandwich. Since when did you prefer to pay 13 pounds for a burger arranged so perfectly where a decent martini should be. Not having her near affects the taste of his favorite beer. Love is being eager for tomorrow .
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Jennifer Devore - AMERICANAH 03:53 video
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Annie McCain Engman - AMERICANAH: 'Where Do You' 03:15 video
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AMERICANAH: 'Where Do You' - Ebee ka i si bia Ebee ka amuru gi Onye maara obi gi Onye i na-atu uche WHERE DO YOU COME FROM WHERE WERE YOU BORN WHO KNOWS YOUR HEART'S DRUM FROM WHERE WERE YOU BORN Conditioned to fill silences Naked false in the choir's hold Pretension is a violence Cement settles in her soul What she held to tightly Were other lives she could be livin' To dream of someone nightly Turned her tough shell into givin' WHERE DO YOU COME FROM WHERE WERE YOU BORN WHO KNOWS YOUR HEART'S DRUM FROM WHERE WERE YOU BORN He felt a hollow space, 'Tween he 'n the man he was s'posed to be Cower to the rich do the nearly rich Impress 'til you no longer see He sensed always an unvoiced yearning A search for what they'd never find A woman content to dance that dance And another who'd left that all behind WHERE DO YOU COME FROM WHERE WERE YOU BORN WHO KNOWS YOUR HEART'S DRUM FROM WHERE WERE YOU BORN A love is a home more than a plåce More than time Though if all three are shared You need nothing more to find
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Terry Radigan - Stranger Things 06:36
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released June 1, 2017

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The Bushwick Book Club Brooklyn, New York

We started in January 2009 playing songs written in response to Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. We haven't stopped since. We've written & performed songs inspired by everything from "On The Origin of Species" to Dr. Seuss to Raymond Carver. There are BBCs popping up nationwide now. Bushwick Book Club Seattle started in 2010 & is run by Geoff Larson. Our nerdy dare-devilry knows no bounds. ... more

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