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The Think Around Your Neck is a collection of short stories by acclaimed Nigerian novelist, non-fiction and short story author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She has been called "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors [that] is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature".
Stories in "The Thing Around Your Neck":

• "Cell One" (first published in The New Yorker); in which a spoilt brother and son of a professor is sent to a Nigerian prison and ends up in the infamous Cell One.
• "Imitation" (first published in Other Voices) is set in Philadelphia and concerns Nkem, a young mother whose art-dealer husband visits only 2 months a year. She finds out that his lover has moved in to their Lagos home.
• "A Private Experience" (first published in Virginia Quarterly Review) in which two women caught up in a riot between Christians and Muslims take refuge in an abandoned shop.
• "Ghosts" (first published in Zoetrope: All-Story) in which a retired university professor looks back on his life.
• "On Monday of Last Week" (first published in Granta 98: The Deep End) in which Kamara, a Nigerian woman who has joined her husband in America takes a job as a nanny to an upper-class family and becomes obsessed with the mother.
• "Jumping Monkey Hill" (first published in Granta 95: Loved Ones) is the most autobiographical story,[3] it is set in Cape Town at a writers retreat where authors from all over Africa gather, and tells of the conflicts experienced by the young Nigerian narrator.
• "The Thing Around Your Neck" (first published in Prospect 99) a woman named Akunna gains a sought after American visa and goes to live with her uncle; but he molests her and she ends up working as a waitress in Connecticut.
• "The American Embassy" (first published in PRISM international) in which a woman applies for asylum but ends up walking away, unwilling to describe her son's murder for the sake of a visa.
• "The Shivering", set on the campus of Princeton University it concerns a Catholic Nigerian woman whose boyfriend has left her, finding solace in the earnest prayers of a stranger who knocks at her door.
• "The Arrangers of Marriage" (first published as "New Husband" in Iowa Review) in which a newly married wife arrives in New York with her husband; and finds she is unable to accept his rejection of their Nigerian identity.
• "Tomorrow Is Too Far" (first published in Prospect 118) a young woman reveals the devastating secret of her brother's death.
• "The Headstrong Historian" (first published in The New Yorker) covers the life-story of a woman who believes her husband was killed by his cousins and is determined to regain the inheritance for her son through his education by missionaries.

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