Notes on Grief explained

Notes on Grief
Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Country:Nigeria
Language:English
Genre:Non-fiction
Publisher:Random House of Canada
Pub Date:11 May 2021
Media Type:Print (Paperback)
Pages:80
Isbn:9781039001565

Notes on Grief is a 2021 memoir written by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.[1] [2] [3] Presented in 30 short sections, Notes on Grief was written following the death of her father James Nwoye Adichie in June 2020, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,[4] and is expanded from an essay first published in The New Yorker.[5] As The New York Times notes: "What she narrates is not only father loss, but the ways Mr. Adichie endures in having made of her a writer."

Reception

Upon release, Notes on Grief was generally well-received. According to Book Marks, the book received "rave" reviews based on nineteen critic reviews, with twelve being "rave" and seven being "positive".[6] In Books in the Media, a site that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.00 out of 5) from the site which was based on five critic reviews.[7] [8]

Reviewing Notes on Grief for NPR, Hope Wabuke said: "In poetic bursts of imagistic prose that mirror the fracturing of self after the death of a beloved parent, Adichie constructs a narrative of mourning — of haunting and of love." The Guardian review characterised it as "both emotional and austere, a work of dignity and of unravelling. Spare and yet spiritually nutritious". Ainehi Edoro in Brittle Paper observes: "In the book, grief is represented in a strikingly sensory language. ...Ultimately, the book is a portrait of her father."[9]

Notes on Grief received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, which concluded with the description: "An elegant, moving contribution to the literature of death and dying."[10]

Notes and References

  1. News: Wabuke . Hope . 'Notes On Grief' Makes Visceral The Experience Of Death And Grieving . 1 November 2021 . . 11 May 2021.
  2. News: Taylor . Catherine . Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie review – the malicious surprise . 1 November 2021 . . 15 May 2021.
  3. News: Lozada . Carlos . In grieving for her father, a novelist discovers the failure of words . 1 November 2021 . . 6 May 2021.
  4. News: Broom . Sarah M. . Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'My Madness Will Now Bare Itself' . 1 November 2021 . . 9 May 2021.
  5. Notes on Grief. Chimamanda Ngozi . Adichie. The New Yorker. 10 September 2020. 23 January 2023.
  6. Web site: Notes on Grief . 16 January 2024 . Book Marks.
  7. Web site: Notes on Grief Reviews. https://web.archive.org/web/20220128110907/https://booksinthemedia.thebookseller.com/reviews/notes-on-grief. 28 January 2022 . 11 July 2024 . Books in the Media.
  8. Web site: 4 October 2023 . Notes on Grief. 4 October 2023 . Bibliosurf . fr.
  9. Web site: In Search of a Language for Grief: Review of Chimamanda Adichie's Notes on Grief. Brittle Paper. Ainehi. Edoro. 9 August 2021. 23 January 2023.
  10. News: Notes on Grief . 1 November 2021 . . 3 March 2021.