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"Grief is forcing new skins on me, scraping scales from my eyes. I regret my past certainties: Surely you should mourn, talk through it, face it, go through it. The smug certainties of a person yet unacquainted with grief. I have mourned in the past, but only now have I touched grief's core. Only now do I learn, while feeling for its porous edges, that there is no way through. I am the centre of this churning, and I have become a maker of boxes, and inside their unbending walls I cage my thoughts."
It is hard to find words to describe what grief is like. Adichie's masterful weaving of words helps put into language this bewildering, life altering experience. This would be a good book for someone to read who has not experienced the depths grief. It is impossible to know what it is like unless you have gone through it, but this book might be a good place to start.
It is hard to find words to describe what grief is like. Adichie's masterful weaving of words helps put into language this bewildering, life altering experience. This would be a good book for someone to read who has not experienced the depths grief. It is impossible to know what it is like unless you have gone through it, but this book might be a good place to start.
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i've never read anything that was so raw. reading this made me realise that i've never really felt the type of grief that the author has experienced, and i dread the day i will.
I am writing about my father in the past tense, and I cannot believe I am writing about my father in the past tense.
Adichie shows yet again how outstanding of a writer she is. One of the few books I've read about grief that actually gets it. Give it to everyone you know.
5 stars.
Almost poetry, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichi's very intimate, entirely exposed memoir of her trials through the loss of her father in the midst of the COVID pandemic is simply beautiful.
Heart-wrenching, heart-warming, and utterly, truly real...this is a beautiful testament to her love for her father.
Almost poetry, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichi's very intimate, entirely exposed memoir of her trials through the loss of her father in the midst of the COVID pandemic is simply beautiful.
Heart-wrenching, heart-warming, and utterly, truly real...this is a beautiful testament to her love for her father.