![]() ![]() Following a profoundly traumatic incident, she cuts off all communication with Obinze and sinks into a deep depression. She has difficulty understanding American culture and humor - and even more difficulty finding work. She moves, leaving Obinze to finish school in Nigeria, and finds the U.S. ![]() Ifemelu imagines an enchanted American life "in a house from 'The Cosby Show,' in a school with students holding notebooks miraculously free of wear and crease." Meanwhile, her aunt, who lives in Brooklyn, urges her to move to the United States to continue her studies. ![]() ![]() Ifemelu is forced to wait out the strike back in Lagos. Following graduation, the young, smitten pair head to university in Nsukka, but politics interfere: The lecturers go on strike for weeks, and the campus shuts down. " Suddenly, she's "acutely aware of the present, the now." They become inseparable, and in his presence, she feels more self-assured, more comfortable in her own skin. They lock eyes at a party and she realizes "she want to breathe the same air as. As a teenager in Lagos, Ifemelu finds herself drawn to Obinze, a calm, cool transfer student from Nsukka. ![]()
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