Notes on Grief
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Buy on AmazonNotes on Grief is a 2021 memoir written by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Presented in 30 short sections, Notes on Grief was written following the death of her father James Nwoye Adichie in June 2020, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and is expanded from an essay first published in The New Yorker. As The New York Times notes: "What she narrates is not only father loss, but the ways Mr. Adichie endures in having made of her a writer."
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"I was moved by Chimamanda Adichie's "Notes on Grief," in part because it is an anti-"Daddy," an anti-"Lear" — which is to say, it is an adoring portrait of a beloved parent."
By the Book: Kathryn Schulz · nytimes.com