With Love, Miss Americanah
$24.00
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
2 December 2025
Summary
Enore Adesuwa doesn’t dive into things, she walks in carefully. So when she, her mother, and her sister move from Nigeria to America shortly after her father’s death, she wants to be extremely prepared before attending an American high school. Luckily, her cousin recommends the perfect research tool: teen movies.
Still dealing with grief but armed with a set of rules of survival gathered from these movies, Enore is ready for her senior year. But when she meets Davi Santiago, it may be…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781250873361 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1250873363 |
| Author: | Jane Igharo |
| Publisher: | St Martin's Press |
| Imprint: | St Martin's Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 2 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 276g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 138mm x 213mm |
| Audience Age: | 14 |
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Critics Review
“In her YA debut, Igharo has crafted a lively novel that cleverly balances the portrayals of a family coping with grief and the whirlwind of high school experiences. Enore is well drawn, believable, and easy to cheer for, and her developing relationship with Davi is touching. Warm, well rounded, and a perfect combination of entertaining and substantive.” –Kirkus, starred review
“With Love, Miss Americanah is the next coming-of-age hit, perfect for fans of Jenny Han… Through new relationships, pursuing new opportunities, and taking a stance on what’s important, Enore finds her voice in more ways than one.” –Booklist, starred review
“Focusing on both the joy and grief associated with drastic change, Igharo employs lush prose that eschews didacticism and deftly balances high school romance, cultural traditions, and the importance of representation in this confident debut.” –Publishers Weekly
“Igharo deftly handles the excitement, intensity, and confusion surrounding young love as well as the mountain of emotions one goes through when mourning a loved one, through characters who are relatable and genuine. A highly entertaining and heartwarming story with a couple to root for.” –The Horn Book Magazine
“This book is a hug. It leaves you warmed, nourished, and blissfully content. Enore is such a compelling and relatable protagonist, caught between parental expectations and her own dreams. And there’s swoony Davi! What a joy! Read this now!” –Jenn Bennett, author of Alex, Approximately
Jane Igharo
Jane Igharo was born in Nigeria and immigrated to Canada at the age of twelve. She has a journalism degree from the University of Toronto and is the critically acclaimed author of Ties that Tether and The Sweetest Remedy. She writes about strong, audacious, beautifully flawed Nigerian women much like the ones in her life. With Love, Miss Americanah is her YA debut.
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