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Notes on Grief
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This book is so very timely for me. A very good friend of mine passed away on April Fool’s Day this year. It was truly a shock when I received the call at 7:04 the following morning. I had just spoken with her about a week or so before and she sounded weak but I had no idea that it would be the last time we would speak. Life is never guaranteed nor can it be measured by time. Life is a moment in the here and now and we are responsible for how we choose to exist in it.
Notes on Grief took me to a place that circled my mind with emotions of great loss not just of my friend but also for her children. Chimamanda is a writer that can draw you in quickly because most can relate to the pain of grief. How she expresses her love for her family, the traditions of Igbo people and how she’s learning to “cope” with such a great loss and also learning to balance life…not just existing in it. She ends by says that she is “writing about her father in the past tense”. I said something similar at the funeral of my friend. “Today we are speaking of Euretha in past tense but she will forever be present in our hearts”.
Favorite Quote: For the rest of my life, I will live with my hands outstretched for things that are no longer there.
Notes on Grief took me to a place that circled my mind with emotions of great loss not just of my friend but also for her children. Chimamanda is a writer that can draw you in quickly because most can relate to the pain of grief. How she expresses her love for her family, the traditions of Igbo people and how she’s learning to “cope” with such a great loss and also learning to balance life…not just existing in it. She ends by says that she is “writing about her father in the past tense”. I said something similar at the funeral of my friend. “Today we are speaking of Euretha in past tense but she will forever be present in our hearts”.
Favorite Quote: For the rest of my life, I will live with my hands outstretched for things that are no longer there.