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Notes on Grief

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.27 AVERAGE

mazeeee's review

4.25

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meriahmurphy's review against another edition

5.0

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lara_08's review

4.0

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megjobethamy's review

5.0

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kerrierose's review

4.75

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4.0

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4.5

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Notes on Grief is a poignant memoir by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, written in the wake of her father’s passing in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. More than just a reflection on loss, the book intimately explores the raw terrain of grief—its suddenness, weight, and unpredictability. Through elegant, unfiltered prose, Adichie honors the memory of her father, James Nwoye Adichie, a revered academic and the first Nigerian professor of statistics. His life, marked by intellectual rigor and quiet strength, becomes a backdrop for the author’s meditation on love, family, and the beauty of a life well lived.

tirnom's review against another edition

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Grief has, as one of its many egregious components, the onset of doubt. No, I am not imagining it.

A poigant meditation on grief as its name implies.
Adichie writes within the bounds of a mind spiraling in the wake of irrevocable loss, that is trying—and failing to make sense of its new reality. 

She writes on the surrealism of death, the unavoidability of grief, and the burgeoning cognizance of not only one's mortality, but also of those whom we love. 
It is a shattering of innocence and order. A wakeup call to the irrationality and impermanence of existence unlike any other. A disruption of the world as we've known it, that leaves us however unprepared—forever altered.

Grief is forcing new skins on me

deuces2peace2's review against another edition

5.0

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jacintaeve's review

4.0

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