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Notes on Grief

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.27 AVERAGE

ddvw's review

4.0

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What a thoughtful and lovely look at grief. Adichie writes with truth and heart following the death of her dad in Nigeria during Covid lockdowns when travel was impossible. If her dad can hear her words, he must be so proud.

rachelevelyn's review

4.0

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I love adichie and I liked this. She writes beautifully on grief but I felt like only scratched the surface of who her dad was.

danette_high's review

5.0

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Short, well-written musings written in recent grief.

gracembuckner's review

4.25

emotional fast-paced

meivi's review

5.0

emotional inspiring fast-paced

mercurymotel's review

4.0

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i feel like there isn’t much i can say; it’s a book about someone pouring their heart out over the grief they experienced following their father’s death. it’s incredibly touching and heartbreaking and made me cry a few times in only 67 pages. 

tripp2mylou's review

5.0

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"For the rest of my life, I will live with my arms outstretched for things that are no longer there."

What an incredibly beautiful tribute to the author's late father. She has captured so much about his wide and warm character in this teeny-tiny book. I am struck by passages like the one above and stories of the kind of big personality her father had, as well as the powerful love he gave to his family - something that leaves a huge gap in their lives when he is gone. She talks about his laugh, the honest and unabashed way he acted as her best critic and proudest cheerleader, and the strength that he showed through the hardest times (like when he was...kidnapped?! Say what?!). He sounds like an amazing person and you can just feel her love for him come through in this book.

thepageunfolds's review

3.5

challenging hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

dani_the_pluviophile_writer's review against another edition

3.0

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Review to come.

jessiiiru's review against another edition

4.0

emotional sad fast-paced