num_pages: 86
description: Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation remembrance and hope written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved fathers 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 original New Yorker 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 page--and never without touches of rich honest humor--Adichie weaves together her own experience of her fathers 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 hed stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba Nigeria. 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. Notes on Grief is a book for this momenta work readers will treasure and share now more than ever--and yet will prove durable and timeless an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon.
language: English
title: Notes on Grief
publisher: Knopf