Imitation (A Vintage Short)

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection

Nkem is living a life of wealth and security in America, until she discovers that her husband is keeping a girlfriend back home in Nigeria. In this high-intensity story of passion and the masks we all wear, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of the acclaimed novels Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah and winner of the Orange Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, explores the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States.

“Imitation” is a selection from Adichie’s collection The Thing Around Your Neck. 

An eBook short.

• The Shivering (Kindle Single) (A Vintage Short)
• Hell-Heaven (A Vintage Short)
• Come Out the Wilderness (Kindle Single) (A Vintage Short)
• To Be Black in America Is to Walk with Fury (A Vintage Short)
• Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: A Story (A Vintage Short)
• The Thing Around Your Neck
• The Prophet's Hair (A Vintage Short)
• The Outing (A Vintage Short)
• Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large (Kindle Single) (A Vintage Short)
• Father and Son (A Vintage Short)