Notes on Grief is a book for this moment-a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever-and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie’s canon. In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, Adichie delivers a gem of a book-a book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page-and never without touches of rich, honest humor-Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father’s 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 he’d stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. It's a story of relocation, far-flung love and life as. 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. In Americanah, a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, moves to the United States for school, leaving behind her boyfriend, Obinze, and her family. shelved 2,561,866 times Showing 30 distinct works.Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. Books by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Author of Americanah) Books by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Average rating 4.33
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