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Notes on grief / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

By: Publication details: New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2021.Description: 67 p. ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 9781039001558 (hc.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.9/37092 23
Summary: A 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 each other, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney disease. 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.

A 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 each other, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney disease. 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.

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