<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7434bfab-67e5-4461-a2ae-34b1772f7772/7DFCD1B5-ABD1-4A41-AAB5-DC1874FB50DC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/books/03kaku.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y#" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/books/03kaku.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y#" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/books/03kaku.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y#"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0"> Out of Africa, Into a Strange America </NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/books/03kaku.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y#"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/C7B12E3B-EAD1-4843-BCCB-72D607EFD83A" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/books/03kaku.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y#"><DIV class="sectionPromo"> <DIV id="reviewInfo"> <DIV class="story"> <H4><P class="nitf"> THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK</P></H4> <P class="summary"> By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie </p> <P class="summary"> 218 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $24.95. </p> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/books/03kaku.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y#"><P>In the title story the heroine wins the American visa lottery, inciting envy on the part of friends and relatives, who say she will soon have “a big car” and “a big house.” But she finds her dreams unraveling soon after arriving in the States. When an “uncle” who has offered her a place to stay — not really her uncle, but a brother of her father’s sister’s husband — sexually assaults her, she ends up taking a bus to a small town, and trading her dreams of a college education for a job as a waitress. Though she eventually becomes involved with a student who has traveled widely in Africa and who turns out to be an attentive, caring boyfriend, part of her remains wary and detached. She thinks she “did not want him to go to Nigeria, to add it to the list of countries where he went to gawk at the lives of poor people who could never gawk back at <SPAN class="italic">his </SPAN>life.” </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7DFCD1B5-ABD1-4A41-AAB5-DC1874FB50DC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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