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The Visit

Written by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrated by: Nyambi Nyambi
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As a powerful matriarchy reshapes the world, two men - old friends - confront the past and future in a bracing speculative short story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Americanah.

One night in Lagos, two former friends reunite. Obinna is a dutiful and unsophisticated stay-at-home husband and father married to a powerful businesswoman. Eze is single, a cautious rebel from his university days whose arrival soon upsets the balance in Obinna’s life. In a world where men are constantly under surveillance and subject to the whims of powerful women, more than Obinna’s ordered and accustomed routine might be on the line.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Visit is part of Black Stars, a multi-dimensional collection of speculative fiction from Black authors. Each story is a world much like our own. Read or listen to them in a single sitting.
©2021 by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
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Not What I Expected But Still Great!

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Visit (Black Stars #1) presents a

near-future society in Nigeria where the matriarchy clearly in charge. I assumed that from the title this would be like alien visits, so my bad on that. But I thought this was super interesting! The first scene sets up the rest with the announcement that male masturbation will remain illegal. I loved the genderbend on the issues that affect our societies even if it isn't a subtle hand that shows the issues.

With a lack of both power and agency, men focus on their looks and their hopes of attracting women and making a good marriage. Their behavior is viewed as emotional and irrational.

Men's role, as well as the way they behave and are perceived, is completely determined by women. Adichie makes several relevant points in this gender role reversal. The writing is great here because it could have been glib and tokenistic but it was neither - it packed a punch.

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Felt Unfinished

The story was presented great and it was easy listening, but I struggled with the ending. It really felt rushed and open ended. There was not really any resolution.

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