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Review: MR. AND MRS. DOCTOR by Julie Iromuanya
ByAkshay Ahuja July 17, 2015July 21, 2025

Mr. and Mrs. DoctorJulie IromuanyaCoffee House Press, 2015288 pages Buy: eBook Job Ogbonnaya is a liar—or, depending on your taste, a dreamer. After his brother Samuel dies in the Biafran war, Job becomes the hope of his family. They send him to school in America to become a doctor. Job flunks out but keeps planning to…

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Language Could Kill You: Adichie, Code-Switching & the Biafran War
Bye.v. de cleyre March 16, 2015July 9, 2025

Language plays a crucial role throughout Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novels, but nowhere is it more decisive than in the author’s second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun. Written against the backdrop of the Biafran War, two wealthy sisters return from England to a nation on the cusp of revolution and choose two different paths:…

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