Notes on Grief
From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of We Should All Be Feminists and Americanah, a profound reckoning with loss, written in the wake of her father’s death.
During the brutal summer of 2020, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s beloved father, a celebrated professor at the University of Nigeria and an irreplaceable figure in a close-knit family, succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Notes on Grief is Adichie’s tribute to him, and a moving meditation on loss.
Here Adichie offers a candid snapshot of the shock, loneliness, and disillusionment that followed the news of her father’s death. Her family, unable to be together except for on video calls, struggles to go through the…
About the Author
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Best of the Best” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Her most recent work is an essay about losing her father, Notes on Grief, and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a children’s book written as Nwa Grace-James. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time…
Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
How to Write About Africa
Binyavanga Wainaina
Mama's Sleeping Scarf
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writing as Nwa Grace-James; Illustrated by Joelle Avelino
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story
Edited by John Freeman
We Should All Be Feminists: A Guided Journal
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Best Short Stories 2021
Edited by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Jenny Minton Quigley, Series Editor
Notes on Grief
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Arrangements
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Imitation
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie