Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has finally, fortunately returned to fiction (WaPo)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has finally, fortunately returned to fiction (WaPo)
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“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” – Audre Lorde
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” – Audre Lorde
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Feb 26 2025, 2:28 PM
“Dream Count,” Adichie’s first novel in more than a decade, rotates between the stories of four women with roots in Nigeria.
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.
Washington Post, Feb 26, 2025.
“Dream Count,” Adichie’s first novel in more than a decade, rotates between the stories of four women with roots in Nigeria.
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.