80 pages | HardcoverFrom the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author ofWe Should All Be Feminists,a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father.

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Notes on Griefis an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies beloved fathers death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure.

Expanding on her originalNew Yorkerpiece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the pageand never without touches of rich, honest humorAdichie weaves together her own experience of her fathers death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which hed stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format ofWe Should All Be FeministsandDear Ijeawele,Adichie delivers a gem of a booka book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences.Notes on Griefis a book for this momenta work readers will treasure and share now more than everand yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichies canon.