"I felt translucent, so fragile that one more rejection would make me come fully undone."
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian author and activist. She was described in The Times Literary Supplement as "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors that is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature."
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