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Zikora

A Short Story

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Zikora

Written by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrated by: Adepero Oduye
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The emotional storms weathered by a mother and daughter yield a profound new understanding in a moving short story by the best-selling, award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists.

When Zikora, a DC lawyer from Nigeria, tells her equally high-powered lover that she’s pregnant, he abandons her. But it’s Zikora’s demanding, self-possessed mother, in town for the birth, who makes Zikora feel like a lonely little girl all over again. Stunned by the speed with which her ideal life fell apart, she turns to reflecting on her mother’s painful past and struggle for dignity. Preparing for motherhood, Zikora begins to see more clearly what her own mother wants for her, for her new baby, and for herself.

©2020 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved African American Anthologies & Short Stories Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Short Stories Women's Fiction

Critic Reviews

“The actor Adepero Oduye as narrator shifts seamlessly between characters, and I hung onto her every word.” (The New York Times)

“The multitalented actress, director, singer, and writer Adepero Oduye provides an outstanding Nigerian-accented narration, charting Zikora's thoughts and feelings surrounding her failed relationship, her attempts to navigate new motherhood as a professional woman, and her developing understanding of her own mother's challenging relationship with Zikora's father in Nigeria.” (AudioFile Magazine)

“[Adichie] is delivering brand-new material to a world that needs her talents more than ever.” (Entertainment Weekly)
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amazing narration.loved the voice.felt like an afro American telling her story.
no words for the story.touched my heart

amazing experience

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One just flows to wherever the narrative chooses to go... and the narrator is simply brilliant. This is not to say that the story lacks in any element of creative writing because the story goes deep into relationships, into motherhood, into the way acceptance of truth shapes up.

Every writer must listen to this story

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The book is so well written. It's the story of a woman a new single mother and how she's coping or drowning in the new and painful feelings and emotions while relating herself with her nearly single mother, understanding her more because of her new maternity. Thankfully it never happened to me or someone I know closely but the writing is so intuitive that it felt like I'm being induced a foreign feeling and feeling it as if it's my own. And a great applause to the narrator as she's done a really great job in conveying the story as meaningfully as it required.

A great short story

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