Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie’s bestseller novel ‘Americanah’ has was won the ‘One Book One New York’ campaign by the Mayor’s office of media and entertainment and BuzzFeed.
The Mayor’s office said the programme aims to get all of New York City on the same page literally adding, the idea is essentially a giant book club, or a “one book read campaign”.
The office said on Monday that New Yorkers cast their ballots for the book throughout February and said they wanted millions of residents to read it simultaneously.
It stated that the voting, which took place in February, were both online and at interactive digital kiosks on subway platforms.
The office added that “finally, Americanah was the book most New Yorkers wanted to read, as 50,000 voters who participated in the #OneBookNY campaign voted for it.”
It explained that New Yorkers were encouraged to form their own book clubs and discussions around the book, which detailed the story of a Nigerian couple that left military-ruled Nigeria.
The office said Americanah centered around two young Nigerian lovers who departed for different cities in the Western world and later reunited in a democratic Nigeria.
Published in 2013, Ngozi-Adichie’s novel won a National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and was named one of The New York Times “Ten Best Books of the Year.”
The office said New Yorkers could access the full audio-book version for 90 days through a city partnership with the digital reading subscription company, Scribd.
