Notes on Grief: A MemoirKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 11. maí 2021 - 80 síður From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father: “With raw eloquence, Notes on Grief … captures the bewildering messiness of loss in a society that requires serenity, when you’d rather just scream. Grief is impolite ... Adichie’s words put welcome, authentic voice to this most universal of emotions, which is also one of the most universally avoided” (The Washington Post). Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father’s 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 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. 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 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. |
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... laughed quietly when I did my playful imitation of a relative. “Ka chi fo,” he said. Good night. His last words to me. On 10 June, he was gone. My brother Chuks called to tell me, and I came undone. 2. My four-year-old daughter says I ...
... laughed quietly when I did my playful imitation of a relative. “Ka chi fo,” he said. Good night. His last words to me. On 10 June, he was gone. My brother Chuks called to tell me, and I came undone. 2. My four-year-old daughter says I ...
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... laugh . “ And I will start to wake up early and I'll start to eat garri and I'll go to Mass every Sunday , " I say , and we laugh . I retell the story of my parents visiting me in.
... laugh . “ And I will start to wake up early and I'll start to eat garri and I'll go to Mass every Sunday , " I say , and we laugh . I retell the story of my parents visiting me in.
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... laughter . Another revelation : how much laughter is a part of grief . Laughter is tightly braided into our family argot , and now we laugh remembering my father , but somewhere in the background there is a haze of disbelief . The ...
... laughter . Another revelation : how much laughter is a part of grief . Laughter is tightly braided into our family argot , and now we laugh remembering my father , but somewhere in the background there is a haze of disbelief . The ...
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