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"Marina had taught Stavroula, this is how you learn, who a person is. First you ask, What was the happiest moment of their life? Then you ask, and you keep asking until you get the real answer, Was it worth it?" such a great and beautiful cover This, you could say, is basically what Annie Liontas ' book Let me explain you is all about. What was your happiest moment and was it worth it? Let me explain you is also about immigration, leaving your home, striving for a better life, a better version of yourself, somethig so inherently human. The book is last but not least about the consequences of leaving and starting in a new place, even if you do so successfully. How does it feel like to be foreign, for yourself and for those around you, your daughters, your family. Can the daughters of an immigrant be ever not foreigners, for example in their own lives? What does it take to arrive. Stavros Stavros Mavrakis, the man, around whom this book revolves, the man, who part...

""It's real literature, the kind of human story people will read in two hundred years," she said. "You sound just like my mother", he said." Reading this book gave me many moments of pure joy, because Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a marvellous writer. Her prose is beautiful and once I've started, it's been hard for me to stop reading. Words simply flowing off the page into my heart and mind. The story is wonderful too, not to mention the characters. I would love to meet them all in person. Not once during the long journey from Nigeria to New York to Philadelphia to Baltimore to Princeton to New Haven to London and back to Nigeria did I feel lost. The story and the characters are so closely woven into a convincing and beautiful pattern, that the reader is instantly at home in this and never gets lost (which I find a rare quality in books today-even books I like a lot, lose me at times, because the story loses pace  or the characters are not ...