Quote:“I had a number of years in which I was almost existentially frightened that I wouldn’t write again,” she recently told the Guardian. “It was unbearable.”

Quote:Now, gratefully, Adichie is back to fiction with “Dream Count,” a rich, complicated book that spans continents and classes. The story jets between America and Nigeria while rotating, section by section, through the experiences of four Black women. Moving through a comedy of manners and a hall of horrors, their stories overlap and intersect in ways that suggest the vast matrix of the African diaspora.