The chapter examines literature’s identity-resolving potential, starting from the awareness that American spaces have long been mapped through difference, with race an overriding and ever-recurring issue. The African black was perceived as the white American’s alterity figures and they were remote and undifferentiated, diversity being denied to them. For the African black, America is as far away and strange as Africa is for the Americans. By investigating the writings of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the well-known contemporary novelist born in Nigeria, for whom “race was not embroidered in the fabric of her history” (Americanah 316), the chapter undertakes to show the way the unknown cultural space of the US is mapped and the American other’s diversity is retrieved. It explores some of the novelist’s strategies of probing identity issues, always at the crossroads of cultures, in her otherwise personal attempt to recover a long-sought sense of belonging. It is actually a reflection of a non-American black’s mapping the US through the eyes of an Eastern European.