According to Maud Newton, it is her best short story yet: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Cell one in New Yorker. This is probably the second Adichie story I have read; so, I cannot say if it is her best. But, it is one of the best short stories that I have read.
Just to whet your appetite, here are a few sentences from the story:
This was the season of thefts on our serene campus.
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By then, it was the season of cults on the Nsukka campus, when signs all over the university read in bold letters, “SAY NO TO CULTS.”
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It was inane. It was so abnormal that it quickly became normal.
April 22, 2007 at 1:16 am
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