I am reading this book of short stories The Thing Around Your Neck
By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.The author is a Nigerian writer and writes about America as seen through the eyes of an immigrant.
This was an interesting excerpt from the book:
America is a strange place: where rich people are thin and poor people are fat, where mall food courts offer a surfeit of food and an absence of dignity, where the same items cost one price one day and half that price the next.
Think I should get my hands on this book as the excerpt is a very interesting observation
That's something I always say. 🙂 About Fat and Thin. The fatty food is cheap. Mall culture is the single handedly responsible for America's obesity/health problems.
I have a dream to visit.
"America is a strange place: where rich people are thin and poor people are fat, where mall food courts offer a surfeit of food and an absence of dignity, where the same items cost one price one day and half that price the next." – Perfect perception of Americans. Agreed!!
very true !! Reflects one of the strange things about this place.
"where the same items cost one price one day and half that price the next. " It feels like there is a year round sales season going on here !!
one hundred percent true Sara!! Must be a good writer, wrote something so true so simply. And now I envy you. Reading a book – what a rare leisure!! When will my days of being able to read non-baby-non-toddler-non-kids-story book be back again?? HUMMMM I Am dreaming……….
Very thought provoking and true..