With Love, Miss Americanah, Jane Igharo
With Love, Miss Americanah, Jane Igharo
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With Love, Miss Americanah

Author: Jane Igharo

Narrator: Joy Ofodu

Unabridged: 9 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/18/2024


Synopsis

With Love, Miss Americanah—the Young Adult contemporary romance debut from Jane Igharo—sees a teenager move from Nigeria to America and navigate her senior year with the help of classic teen movies and a new crush, all while working through grief and the rigid expectations of her mother.

17-year-old Enore Adesuwa doesn’t dive into things, she walks in carefully. So when she, her mother, and her sister move from Nigeria to America shortly after her father’s death, she wants to be extremely prepared before attending an American high school. Her cousin, Adrian, doesn’t have time to explain the ins and outs to her but, luckily, he recommends the perfect research tool: teen movies.

Still dealing with grief but armed with a set of rules of survival gathered from these movies (including the crucial rule of keeping a low profile), Enore is ready for her senior year. But when she meets Davi Santiago, it may be much harder than she thought to keep to her rules. Because not only is he super thoughtful (and okay, very good looking), he constantly encourages her to share her incredible singing talent. Enore prefers the background but it just might be time for her to take center stage, even in spite of her mother’s strict expectations.

Maybe it would be easier to follow all the rules, the ones Enore set for herself and the ones her mom imposes, but as every teen movie has taught her, a coming-of-age is nothing without a little rebellion. And with help from her crush, her sister, and some new friends who don’t quite fit the roles she expects them to play, Enore’s senior year might indeed be cinematic.

A Macmillan Audio production from Feiwel & Friends.

About Jane Igharo

Jane Abieyuwa Igharo was born in Nigeria and immigrated to Canada at the age of twelve. She has a journalism degree from the University of Toronto and is the critically acclaimed author of Ties that Tether and The Sweetest Remedy. She writes about strong, audacious, beautifully flawed Nigerian women much like the ones in her life. With Love, Miss Americanah is her Young Adult debut.


Reviews

Goodreads review by suonnahbooks on June 05, 2024

- This book follows Enore who moves from Nigeria to America you see her navigate her senior year in a country + high school. - You see her work through the grief of losing her father and everything that comes with it - This book is a great representation of immigrating to a new country and having to......more

Goodreads review by dreamgirlreading on August 22, 2024

With Love, Miss Americanah follows Enore after she moves from Nigeria to America, starting her senior year of high school in her first American school. She’s grieving the loss of her father and confused about how to fit into this new society. Her cousin gave her 60 teen movies to prepare: Mean Girls......more

Goodreads review by Courtnee on June 18, 2024

This novel was a breath of fresh air. I enjoyed reading this YA of a girl discovering who she really is. The author did a great job at covering the difficulties of being an immigrant living in America and the perceptions of what an America school is life based on movies.......more

Goodreads review by Teresa on July 05, 2024

Thank you to NetGalley, Feiwel & Friends, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Young Listeners, Jane Igharo, and Joy Ofodu (audio narrator) for the opportunity to read and listen to the audiobook of With Love, Miss Americanah in exchange for an honest review With Love, Miss Americanah is a debut novel by Jane......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on June 25, 2024

Yay! A case where my unbelievably high anticipation for a book actually pays off lol I have loved everything Jane Igharo has written. There’s something wonderful about her writing style that I’d never be able to describe. This book is her first YA and she has given us another wonderful story. Enore ha......more


Quotes

"In her YA debut, Igharo has crafted a lively novel that cleverly balances the portrayals of a family coping with grief and the whirlwind of high school experiences. Enore is well drawn, believable, and easy to cheer for, and her developing relationship with Davi is touching. Warm, well rounded, and a perfect combination of entertaining and substantive." —Kirkus, starred review

"This book is a hug. It leaves you warmed, nourished, and blissfully content. Enore is such a compelling and relatable protagonist, caught between parental expectations and her own dreams. And there's swoony Davi! What a joy! Read this now!" —Jenn Bennett, author of Alex, Approximately