Notes on Grief
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| Author | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Random House of Canada |
Publication date | 11 May 2021 |
| Publication place | Nigeria |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 80 |
| ISBN | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
Notes on Grief is a 2021 memoir written by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.[1][2][3] 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,[4] and is expanded from an essay first published in The New Yorker.[5] 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."[4]
Reception
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Reviewing Notes on Grief for NPR, Hope Wabuke said: "In poetic bursts of imagistic prose that mirror the fracturing of self after the death of a beloved parent, Adichie constructs a narrative of mourning — of haunting and of love."[1] The Guardian review characterised it as "both emotional and austere, a work of dignity and of unravelling. Spare and yet spiritually nutritious".[2] Ainehi Edoro in Brittle Paper observes: "In the book, grief is represented in a strikingly sensory language. ...Ultimately, the book is a portrait of her father."[6]
Notes on Grief received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, which concluded with the description: "An elegant, moving contribution to the literature of death and dying."[7]
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