"She was thirty-two and tottering under the weight of her desire: to settle down. It was all she talked about. It was all our female co-workers talked about when we had lunch at the cafeteria.”"
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Birdsong (book)
Birdsong (2010) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a short story first published in The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” series. “Birdsong” focuses on a young Nigerian woman’s affair with an older, married man. Like many of Adichie’s works, the story explores how gender impacts women’s private and public lives. Adichie’s debut novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003), won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston Wright Legacy Award. Her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), won the Orange Prize and was a
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