| | I finished Second Class Citizen yesterday before work.
"One of the most informative books I have read about contemporary African life that I have read." - Alice Walker
I'd have to agree. Most of the stuff I've read haas been about women fleeing from Africa. In this book, the main character goes with her husband to England, and you get a glimpse of how different things are in England from Africa.
I'm looking forward to reading more of Emecheta's stuff. I think this book was pretty autobiographical. Adah (the main character) proves that you're only a second class citizen if you don't try to better yourself. Adah fought for what she wanted, got a first class job, and a first class education, while her husband Francis sat around waiting for his wife to support him, and telling her that she was second class. She proved him wrong.
The only thing I didn't like about the book was the ending, because it just ends. There's no build up. The ending felt like someone had just hit the stop button on a movie 20 minutes before it was over, and said that was the end.
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