Americanah author speaks to Vanity Fair on relationship with her “glamorous big sister.”

Nigerian novelist, nonfiction writer and short story writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie after a prolonged absence because of her pregnancy is in the spotlight again.

In Vanity Fair‘s May issue celebrating sisterhood, Adichie who just gave birth revealed some interesting things about her relationship with her older sister, Uche.

“I remember standing at the foot of the long stairway in our new house, too frightened to climb, everything big and unfamiliar, until my sister Uche silently took my hand and we went up together. I was 4; she was 15. It is my earliest memory of my attachment to her.

But, according to family lore, the attachment started much earlier. I was a fussy baby whose nightly screaming was soothed only by her. Newly weaned, I would eat okra and liver sauce only if she fed me. “By the way,” she told me recently. “I ate all the liver—that’s why you didn’t grow tall.” she writes.

Read the essay here

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