Dream Count
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Buy on AmazonChiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until—betrayed and brokenhearted—she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America—but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve.
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"What do women really want? To be respected, cherished, admired, successful? To have it “all”? Or just … something? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s latest – her first novel in more than a decade – follows the interconnected stories of four women of Nigerian or Guinean heritage as they try to figure out what it is they really want and how to go about having it in a world that is not built for them no matter how privileged or educated or connected they are. It weaves in a shocking (but not surprising) real-world crime while it examines interior lives in a manner that is as real and raw as an X-ray."
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"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ( Americanah , Half of a Yellow Sun ) is publishing her first novel in more than a decade. Dream Count tells the story of four women: two Nigerian friends living in the United States, one of their cousins, and one of their housekeepers. Speaking to The Sunday Times, Adichie said: “The writing process was much more difficult than my previous novels because my life was very different. The devastation of losing both my parents in a short time hung like a shadow over the process. I’m a much slower writer now — fiction feels more hard worn and hard fought. And even more precious.” Dream Count is out on 4 March, but available to pre-order now."
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