{"product_id":"notes-on-grief","title":"Notes on Grief","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of \u003ci\u003eWe Should All Be Feminists, \u003c\/i\u003e a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father: \u003ci\u003e \"\u003c\/i\u003eWith raw eloquence, \u003ci\u003eNotes on Grief\u003c\/i\u003e ... captures the bewildering messiness of loss in a society that requires serenity, when you'd rather just scream. Grief is impolite ... Adichie's words put welcome, authentic voice to this most universal of emotions, which is also one of the most universally avoided\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes on Grief\u003c\/i\u003e is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father's 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExpanding on her original \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e piece, 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 page--and never without touches of rich, honest humor--Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father's 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 he'd stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the compact format of \u003ci\u003eWe Should All Be Feminists\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDear Ijeawele, \u003c\/i\u003e Adichie delivers a gem of a book--a book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences. \u003ci\u003eNotes on Grief\u003c\/i\u003e is a book for this moment--a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever--and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon.","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51669755887906,"sku":"9780593320808","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/8637\/3154\/files\/imageloader_5b2308f9-b42f-4421-988e-bf338e7f742a.jpg?v=1779711989","url":"https:\/\/godmothers.com\/products\/notes-on-grief","provider":"Godmothers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}