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The author's pain is quite visceral. If you have lost your father, do not read this book around Father's day. The pain of losing one's father never really goes away.
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I can feel this all.
A truly beautiful, tiny book reflecting on Adichie’s father and her grief at his loss during 2020. As one of my fathers died just before the pandemic, and the other in March 2020, I related to the strangeness of loss at this time, and from a distance. Deep thinking, raw emotion, lyrical writing; a worthwhile book to read at any life stage.
Heartbreaking notes and thoughts on her dad’s sudden death and being unable to have his funeral at the time because of COVID restrictions.
“I am writing about my father in the past tense, and I cannot believe I am writing about my father in the past tense.”
This is a beautiful book. I recommend it to anyone who has known grief, even though it is about Adichies own experience. It almost feels like its your own. But I specifically recomment this book to anyone who has lost someone during the pandemic, to hose whose families are far away and couldn't grief together, to those also still in grief... It is quick to read, it is heartbreaking, it makes you feel closer to everyone else feeling the same kind of pain.
emotional
reflective
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fast-paced
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How is it that the world keeps going, breathing in and out unchanged, while in my soul there is a permanent scattering?
This was so beautifully written.
Notes on grief. La perte d'un être cher est toujours bouleversant et Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie a su mettre les mots sur ce chagrin qui la dépasse.