Yet once home he too finds success - as the kind of 'Big Man' in Lagos he'd scorned in his youth. His journey leads him through back alleys of illegal employment in London to a fake marriage for the sake of a work card and finally to a set of handcuffs as he is exposed and deported. He'd hoped to join her in America, but post-9/11 America wouldn't take him. Obinze - handsome and kind-hearted - was Ifemelu's teenage love. She feels for the first time the weight of something she didn't think about back home: race. But what came before is more like a nightmare: painful departure from family humiliating jobs under a false name. She seems to have fulfilled every immigrant's dream: Ivy League education success as a writer of a popular political blog money for the things she needs. Ifemelu - beautiful, self-assured - left Nigeria 15 years ago, and now studies in Princeton as a Graduate Fellow. A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected
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