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I listened to the audio book of this. It was an ode to her father and heartfelt, though straightforward.
experiencing the loss of family during the pandemic; heartbreaking but as usual, beautifully written
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This was a great short pov about such a terrible experience. While it’s not exactly intended (I think) to be written to speak to the audience and more so her own grapplings with grieving the loss of her father during the beginning of Covid, a lot of the things she said hit home as someone else also grieving a loved one. It hurt but I highly recommend.
Foremost her own story of her relationship with her father, but also eloquently relatable, giving voice to all of our grief.
“In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Notes on Grief, the lament composed to honor and process the death of her father during the early days of the global COVID-19 pandemic, one of our century’s most gifted artists of language makes visceral the experience of death and grieving. In poetic bursts of imagistic prose that mirror the fracturing of self after the death of a beloved parent, Adichie constructs a narrative of mourning — of haunting and of love.”
— Hope Wabuke, NPR Book Reviews
“In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Notes on Grief, the lament composed to honor and process the death of her father during the early days of the global COVID-19 pandemic, one of our century’s most gifted artists of language makes visceral the experience of death and grieving. In poetic bursts of imagistic prose that mirror the fracturing of self after the death of a beloved parent, Adichie constructs a narrative of mourning — of haunting and of love.”
— Hope Wabuke, NPR Book Reviews
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The author wrote so beautifully about her father. Her use of words was perfect.
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As always this book by one of my favourite authors is beautifully written. It is a tribute to her father, who died during the pandemic in June 2020. My own father died 14 years ago but the events that overtook my life at that time and for the following three years robbed me of the time to grieve and mourn. Like Chimamanda Adichie, I also took after my father and so this book was timely and helpful in exploring my own feelings and processing that long delayed grief.