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A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of "Americanah" and "Half of a Yellow Sun".

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ HARPER COLLINS
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 15, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0008470332
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0008470333
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.37 x 0.28 x 7.01 inches
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CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Best of the Best” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Her most recent work is an essay about losing her father, Notes on Grief, and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a children’s book written as Nwa Grace-James. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

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Customers find the book simple and emotionally intense, with one mentioning it made them cry from page one. Moreover, the writing style is beautiful, and customers appreciate how it helps validate grief experiences. Additionally, the book is honest and intimate, with one review highlighting moments of closeness with siblings, while another notes how it intertwines with reflections on family.

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14 customers mention "Readability"14 positive0 negative

Customers find the book simple and easy to read, with one customer describing it as elegant.

"...But it is a book worth a read, and I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did." Read more

"...Simple and touching, achingly poignant and beautifully written...." Read more

"...Practical tips on grieving and lessons from grief. I love a quick, easy and simple read...." Read more

"If you’ve lost a loved one, this is a wonderful book to read. It lets you know that no one will ever understand your grief and pain...." Read more

11 customers mention "Emotional depth"11 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the emotional depth of the book, describing it as full of intensity, with one customer noting how it illustrates the power of love and loss, while another mentions being moved to tears from the first page.

"...Simple and touching, achingly poignant and beautifully written...." Read more

"...Gripping and full of emotional intensity that cannot be exhumed, this short novel illustrates the power of love and loss and what the effects of the..." Read more

"...2021 and I could relate to so many of the thoughts and emotions expressed in this book...." Read more

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Customers appreciate the writing style of the book, describing it as beautifully written, with one customer specifically noting how it explains grief in the context of the pandemic.

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"Beautifully written as always from her.. It's clearly about her own experience, her own father but it was oh so relatable for a big loss of any kind." Read more

"...Beautifully written explaining grief in this pandemic, how sudden death can still surprise and hollow one out...." Read more

"...It is simple to read for those who are new to grieving. Elegantly written, honest and graceful." Read more

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Customers find the book insightful and meaningful, particularly appreciating how it intertwines reflections on grief with family experiences.

"...Practical tips on grieving and lessons from grief. I love a quick, easy and simple read...." Read more

"...It also talks about great father daughter and familial bond they shared. 4.5 stars." Read more

"It was an interesting outlook on grief intertwined with reflections on family." Read more

"...The insight on so many things around grief was really insightful. I recommend this to anyone who wants their heart cracked open." Read more

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Customers find the book beautiful, with one noting its exquisite tone and content.

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"...She captures the unbearable pain, the exquisite love and moments of closeness with her siblings, the pangs and golden poignancy of memories, in ways..." Read more

"...My heart broke for her and it was beautiful in a few parts, but much like early grief, it was a bit chaotic and..." Read more

"...Painfully descriptive and exquisite in tone and content. Grateful to have found this work of love and remembrance." Read more

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Customers appreciate the intimacy of the book, with one review highlighting moments of closeness with siblings and another noting its deeply personal nature.

"...'s clearly about her own experience, her own father but it was oh so relatable for a big loss of any kind." Read more

"...captures the unbearable pain, the exquisite love and moments of closeness with her siblings, the pangs and golden poignancy of memories, in ways..." Read more

"...It also talks about great father daughter and familial bond they shared. 4.5 stars." Read more

"...Chimamanda’s account of her own grief is deeply personal and a help for anyone who has lost someone." Read more

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Grief, wonderful memories, and a little introduction to contemporary life in Nigeria
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2021
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It is somehow wonderful to see that after so much has already been written and said about grief and mourning, something more can be added by writers like Adichie.
Her grief at the sudden passing of her 88 year old father, how she dealt with it, how to deal with the bromides of sympathy, and memories of the wondeful man and father he was.
But more than that, a further introduction to modern life in Nigeria and western Africa. Legal battles over land, her mother expected to shave her head in mourning (!!!), the corruption, warfare, jealousy of those who have achieved wealth and status, and kidnappings!
Some complaints have been voiced about the shortness of this book (67 pp of text, small format, large print - $16 list price), but with COVID there seems to be a new literary form. The short essay on death or loneliness or isolation - or living with the same person for over a year, with little other socializing! I enjoy them.
Yes, maybe it is a book you'll want to borrow from your local public library instead of buying (I did not have the patience to wait through the huge "Hold" queue that had built up already at mine, so I went ahead and bought a physcial copy for myself). But it is a book worth a read, and I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did.

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Tiamo
An Ode to Grief
Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2025
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Beautifully written as always from her.. It's clearly about her own experience, her own father but it was oh so relatable for a big loss of any kind.

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Isabel Ortiz
Insightful and Enlightening
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2022
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Adichie’s Notes on Grief immediately transports the reader to a world without a beloved figure: one’s father. Gripping and full of emotional intensity that cannot be exhumed, this short novel illustrates the power of love and loss and what the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have exerted on individuals around the world, especially those who have had to navigate some of life’s greatest difficulties when separated by an ocean and closed borders. I absolutely loved this and I wish I could have read more.

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Mary
this helped to heal an old wound
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2022
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My father, like yours, passed far too soon. I did not have near to a similar relationship, I think few are lucky enough to, but nonetheless. I am his daughter in THAT way, that a daddy’s girl is her daddy’s girl. The way you can capture this between lines, the way they remind me of my own pangs of loss…this work speaks to my soul in that language no one hears. A healing in being understood.

I don’t speak, if I can help it, when I hear someone else has lost someone. There is nothing, nothing, nothing that language can communicate to ease the circular furious burning hollow that is loss. The forgetting that follows. The time you thought you had and the nihilistic tunnel you enter when the spell breaks and you realize that our time was never ours to promise.

Chimamanda, when I saw that your father had passed I paused in my own life. We are perfect strangers (once, we were under the same roof at a library reading) but I believe that blood calls to blood (what our shared blood is, I don’t know, but you continue to write my own soul into your own books, so there is something there). I was there with you, and I continue to be there with you. To you, and to anyone reading this, you are not alone in this. I pray that endless peace fills your heart.

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Simply beautiful and touching
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2022
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Chimomanda's writing helped me through the grief of losing my parents. Now we get to share her grief and beautiful stories of losing her beloved dad. Simple and touching, achingly poignant and beautifully written. This little book is perfect to tuck into a condolence gift or simply into the hands of someone experiencing lost.

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SL Carson
Helped Validate My Grief
Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2024
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I read this in one night during the weekend of my dad’s Celebration of Life. I have always heard, “Children are supposed to bury their parents,” and people said of my dad that “he lived a full life,” which made me feel like I shouldn’t have as big of a hole as I do. Her openness with her grief told me the hole is the size it needs to be.

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I Needed This
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2023
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My mother, a proud Ghanaian woman, passed away a year ago. The grief has returned in a fresh way as we’ve just commemorated her first year with Ghanaian customs. Upon returning home from Ghana, I searched for books that might help me cope through the current wave of grief and came across this one. What a gift.

I’ve been a longtime fan of Adichie, and felt saddened that I did not know of her fathers passing, or of this book sooner…as though I knew her (I felt like I did, from her previous novels). This book, as short as it is, made me feel so seen, so understood, so validated in a way that I’ve not been in this hellish year. Thank you, Ms. Adichie, for your vulnerability in sharing your heart with us. Take heart.

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T. J Brothers
Not insightful
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2024
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I love this author’s fiction, I lost my Mum during Covid and couldn’t make it back for the funeral so thought it might resonate and be something to connect with. I didn’t think she actually went very deep into her own feelings and was a steep price for very small book.

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shannon
Enlightening
Reviewed in Japan on March 30, 2023
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I loved the fact that I learned a name for my style of grieving.

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wonderful
Reviewed in Italy on August 7, 2022
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One of the best lectures about grieving.

It’s sad, hard, and real, but when you are fighting with Grieving, you don’t need fake words, fake fair stories about death. You need to feel that someone in the world is feeling the same heartless as yours, with no gentle lies.

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Beth-Ann Jacobs
Raw and Authentic
Reviewed in Canada on July 9, 2024
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I could feel the personal and individual parts of grief that can only come from the one who knows. It is different from any other book on grief I have read as it helped me understand that I cannot dress rehearse for it.

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Reviewed in Germany on December 9, 2024
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Concerning the author: A well spoken person with a very honest, sensible, considerate and yet painfully direkt approach to emotion. I'll read on.

Concerning the repetition of the Covid - topic:
It is a very naive thing to still write, that the Coronavirus changed everything. It didn't. It was what politicians did to us with their measures and their absolutely unscientific and fear-inducing manner of handling things. Covid should - especially in such an important writing - never again be aknowledged.

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Notes on Grief
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 17, 2023
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This is a touching autobiographical account of the undulations of the grief Chimamanda finds herself wading through when her father dies during the early days of the pandemic. The “stages of grief” are visible to those familiar with them, and her pain palpable from her poignant prose.

As someone who experienced their first, profound, significant bereavement only six months ago, this short essay resonates deeply. The old adage that you must have experienced it to fully understand is undoubtedly true here.

As a healthcare educator, this is a book I intend to utilise in my teachings on the grief experience. It is a quick read in uncomplicated language, but it’s impact will last significantly longer with me.

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