Dear fans of Chimamanda Adichie, you will love this news!
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has a new “timely and deeply personal” book that is going to be published by 4th Estate.
The book, according to a report by The Bookseller, is “a work of meditation, remembrance, and hope which grew out of an essay that originally appeared in the New Yorker.”
Adichie’s new book, Note on Grief, was acquired by Nicholas Pearson, the editorial director at Fourth Estate. Pearson acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Sarah Chalfant at the Wylie Agency.
Here is a report from its publisher:
“Last summer, as the Covid-19 pandemic raged around the world and kept her family members separated from one another, Adichie’s father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. In Notes on Grief, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving, about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief, and also about the loneliness and anger that accompany it. Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father’s death with threads of his life story —from his survival of the Biafran War, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic, during which he’d stay connected to his children and grandchildren over video chats from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. As Adichie wrestles with his passing, she recalls her father as a remarkable man of kindness and charm, and a fierce supporter of his youngest daughter.”
In a statement to The Bookseller, Pearson said: “Notes on Grief is a moving tribute to the father Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie loved fiercely and whose sudden death devastated her. It will be treasured by readers for the light it sheds on the pain of navigating the loss of someone we love.”
The book is to be released on 11th May 2021. You can pre-order here
You can read the personal essay which gave birth to this book here
We can’t wait to read Chimamanda Adichie’s personal and deeply moving book on grief and loss. Congratulations Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie!
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