Two-thirds of the way into Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "Americanah," an African-American woman named Shan, while slightly in her cups, delivers a diatribe against the publishing world's timid dealings with black writers who candidly confront the topic of racism. "You can't write an honest novel about race in this country," she says. "If you write about how people are really affected by race, it'll be too obvious. Black writers who do literary fiction in this country . . . have two choices: they can do precious or they can do pretentious."
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