Adichie's Dark Side

I thought that "Cell One" was an incredible story. The plot was very interesting and intriguing, and I kept wanting to read. Adichie's use of words is always so great; she knows how to put words together in a way different from anything else I have ever read. As much as I loved "Cell One", I thought it was such a dark, dark story. The story was so morose and sad, I was almost surprised that it was written by Adichie.

I read Adichie's book Americanah for summer reading this past summer. Though that book had some sad parts, it was nothing close to how dark and sad "Cell One" was. Americanah was sad in different ways: the main character not being able to get a job in America or her relationships with guys. It was nothing about abuse or the Nigerian prison system. Of course, these are too different stories, but a lot of the time author's books are similar in a lot of ways, whereas with these two, there were similarities, but at the same time, they were so, so different from each other. Everything else I've read or heard from Adichie normally has an uplifting part to it, whereas there was not a lot of that in "Cell One". I just found it strange, but also interesting that the two stories by the same author could be so different from each other.