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Title: Notes on Grief
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Genre: Non Fiction Essays
Rating: 4.75
Pub Date: May 11 2021
T H R E E • W O R D S
Profound • Comforting • Universal
📖 S Y N O P S I S
Notes of Grief is a collection of writings, expanding on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's essay which appeared in the New Yorker in the wake of her father's death in 2020. Equal parts beautiful obituary in honour of her father, and a meditation on grief and healing.
💭 T H O U G H T S
I'll start about by saying, her writing is absolutely brilliant! Written in such a raw and emotional fashion, Chimamanda shares how grief is so intensely personal, and yet so profoundly universal. She manages to pack so much emotion and love into this compact book that left me feeling validated in my own grief journey. While each persons journey is different, there were parts here that echoed my journey and sentiments so profoundly. I felt seen. I felt heard. And I am grateful to Chimamanda for sharing a beautiful and intimate part of her story with with me, and with the world. I am when writers put into words feelings I have felt, and thoughts I have thought, if for nothing else than to know I am not alone. While heartbreaking in its own right, it also offered me a comforting hug in the form of a book. She has managed to put into words so eloquently many of the things I have failed to articulate in my own grief. I was simply left wanting more from this compact and powerful account.
Notes of Grief is without a doubt a book I will share with others, particularly those grieving, or who are supporting a grieving person. It is a wonderful examination of life, and of death.
📚 R E C O M M E N D • T O
• grievers
• readers who love her writing
• anyone supporting a grieving person
🔖 F A V O U R I T E • Q U O T E S
"Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language."
"'Never' has come to stay. 'Never' feels so unfairly punitive. For the rest of my life, I will live with my hands outstretched for things that are no longer there."
"We don't know how we will grieve until we grieve."
"It does not matter whether I want to be changed, because I am changed. A new voice is pushing itself out of my writing, full of the closeness I feel to death, the awareness of my own mortality, so finely thredded, so acute. A new urgency. An impermanence in the air."
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Genre: Non Fiction Essays
Rating: 4.75
Pub Date: May 11 2021
T H R E E • W O R D S
Profound • Comforting • Universal
📖 S Y N O P S I S
Notes of Grief is a collection of writings, expanding on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's essay which appeared in the New Yorker in the wake of her father's death in 2020. Equal parts beautiful obituary in honour of her father, and a meditation on grief and healing.
💭 T H O U G H T S
I'll start about by saying, her writing is absolutely brilliant! Written in such a raw and emotional fashion, Chimamanda shares how grief is so intensely personal, and yet so profoundly universal. She manages to pack so much emotion and love into this compact book that left me feeling validated in my own grief journey. While each persons journey is different, there were parts here that echoed my journey and sentiments so profoundly. I felt seen. I felt heard. And I am grateful to Chimamanda for sharing a beautiful and intimate part of her story with with me, and with the world. I am when writers put into words feelings I have felt, and thoughts I have thought, if for nothing else than to know I am not alone. While heartbreaking in its own right, it also offered me a comforting hug in the form of a book. She has managed to put into words so eloquently many of the things I have failed to articulate in my own grief. I was simply left wanting more from this compact and powerful account.
Notes of Grief is without a doubt a book I will share with others, particularly those grieving, or who are supporting a grieving person. It is a wonderful examination of life, and of death.
📚 R E C O M M E N D • T O
• grievers
• readers who love her writing
• anyone supporting a grieving person
🔖 F A V O U R I T E • Q U O T E S
"Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language."
"'Never' has come to stay. 'Never' feels so unfairly punitive. For the rest of my life, I will live with my hands outstretched for things that are no longer there."
"We don't know how we will grieve until we grieve."
"It does not matter whether I want to be changed, because I am changed. A new voice is pushing itself out of my writing, full of the closeness I feel to death, the awareness of my own mortality, so finely thredded, so acute. A new urgency. An impermanence in the air."
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Grief
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