Progressive Grounds Coffee House
400 Cortland Ave
San Francisco, CA 94110
Attendance limited to 10 people.
Mobility & service animal/pet policies: see the Progressive Grounds Coffee House web site for information.
Carpools: We will do our best to match drivers offering rides and passengers needing rides. However, we are unable to guarantee matches.
Questions? Contact Rachel at northerncalifornia@brynmawr.edu
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamabda Ngozi Adiche
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—a haunting story of love and war. • Recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Winner of Winners” award.
With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna, the professor’s beautiful young mistress who has abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover’s charm; and Richard, a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna’s willful twin sister Kainene.
Half of a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war.