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Notes on Grief
80 pages | Hardcover
From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author ofĀ We Should All Be Feminists,Ā a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father.
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Notes on GriefĀ is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieās beloved fatherās death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure.
Expanding on her originalĀ New YorkerĀ piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the pageāand never without touches of rich, honest humorāAdichie weaves together her own experience of her fatherās death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which heād stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format ofĀ We Should All Be FeministsĀ andĀ Dear Ijeawele,Ā Adichie delivers a gem of a bookāa book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences.Ā Notes on GriefĀ is a book for this momentāa work readers will treasure and share now more than everāand yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichieās canon.
āEssentialāāBooklist
Notes on GriefĀ is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieās beloved fatherās death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure.
Expanding on her originalĀ New YorkerĀ piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the pageāand never without touches of rich, honest humorāAdichie weaves together her own experience of her fatherās death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which heād stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format ofĀ We Should All Be FeministsĀ andĀ Dear Ijeawele,Ā Adichie delivers a gem of a bookāa book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences.Ā Notes on GriefĀ is a book for this momentāa work readers will treasure and share now more than everāand yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichieās canon.
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80 pages | Hardcover
From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author ofĀ We Should All Be Feminists,Ā a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father.
āEssentialāāBooklist
Notes on GriefĀ is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieās beloved fatherās death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure.
Expanding on her originalĀ New YorkerĀ piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the pageāand never without touches of rich, honest humorāAdichie weaves together her own experience of her fatherās death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which heād stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format ofĀ We Should All Be FeministsĀ andĀ Dear Ijeawele,Ā Adichie delivers a gem of a bookāa book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences.Ā Notes on GriefĀ is a book for this momentāa work readers will treasure and share now more than everāand yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichieās canon.
āEssentialāāBooklist
Notes on GriefĀ is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieās beloved fatherās death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure.
Expanding on her originalĀ New YorkerĀ piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the pageāand never without touches of rich, honest humorāAdichie weaves together her own experience of her fatherās death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which heād stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format ofĀ We Should All Be FeministsĀ andĀ Dear Ijeawele,Ā Adichie delivers a gem of a bookāa book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences.Ā Notes on GriefĀ is a book for this momentāa work readers will treasure and share now more than everāand yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichieās canon.
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80 pages | Hardcover
From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author ofĀ We Should All Be Feminists,Ā a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father.
āEssentialāāBooklist
Notes on GriefĀ is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieās beloved fatherās death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure.
Expanding on her originalĀ New YorkerĀ piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the pageāand never without touches of rich, honest humorāAdichie weaves together her own experience of her fatherās death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which heād stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format ofĀ We Should All Be FeministsĀ andĀ Dear Ijeawele,Ā Adichie delivers a gem of a bookāa book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences.Ā Notes on GriefĀ is a book for this momentāa work readers will treasure and share now more than everāand yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichieās canon.
āEssentialāāBooklist
Notes on GriefĀ is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieās beloved fatherās death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure.
Expanding on her originalĀ New YorkerĀ piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the pageāand never without touches of rich, honest humorāAdichie weaves together her own experience of her fatherās death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which heād stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format ofĀ We Should All Be FeministsĀ andĀ Dear Ijeawele,Ā Adichie delivers a gem of a bookāa book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences.Ā Notes on GriefĀ is a book for this momentāa work readers will treasure and share now more than everāand yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichieās canon.
