Summary

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short story “Chinasa” starts with the narrator’s memory of a day in 1968, during the war. As she is reading THE AFRICAN CHILD, she hears bombing. The narrator lives in a house she shares with two families, where she gets to live for free because the owner knew her late father.  As she hears the bombing, the narrator thinks about her life before the war, about her father, and how everybody thinks that she is still not married because he spoiled her. 

The narrator is familiar with the sound of bombing. She mentions how her parents and other family members died during the war and because of bombings and she barely survived. She explains how she finds it difficult to run or even move as she witnesses the bombing and the destructio...