Notes on Grief

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Call Number: 155.937 Ad, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Literary / Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch

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"This is a slightly expanded version of a piece written by the author that originally appeared in The New Yorker on September 10, 2020"--Title page verso.
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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Perfect submitted by mowjac on April 6, 2022, 8:46am Articulate and visceral, Adichie turns her talent to the death of her father and what follows. She gives voice to the outrage and outrageousness of our deepest grief.

Loved it submitted by liaowrightfam on July 28, 2022, 10:34pm Loved it so much that I had to purchase a copy for myself to keep. She is a beautiful writer and her depiction of grief is spot on.