Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There are two great things in this book: the extremely insightful and lucid portrait of racism in the US and the very interesting and informative depiction of the present state of life and aspirations for learned middle class people in an African country (in this case Nigeria) seen through the eyes of one of them. Fortunately, these compensate the book's shortcomings - the lameness of the romantic plot, a sometimes too morally righteous undertone and its length (it should be at least 200 pages shorter, and I admit that if it went on for another 100 pages I would downgrade it from 4 to 3 stars).

Chimamande Ngozi Adichie's writing is elegant and fluid, so the book is an easy read. So, even if it's too long, I still think it's worth reading, though not nearly as good as Half of a Yellow Sun, the only other of her books I read.