TY - BOOK AU - Adichie,Chimamanda Ngozi TI - Notes on grief SN - 9780008470302 (HB) PY - 2021/// CY - London PB - 4th Estate KW - Grief KW - Bereavement KW - Authors, Nigerian KW - Biography KW - Fathers and daughters KW - Nigeria KW - Women authors, Nigerian KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs KW - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black N1 - "This is a Borzoi Book" -- Title page verso; "This is a slightly expanded version of a piece written by the author that originally appeared in The New Yorker on September 10, 2020"--Title page verso N2 - Notes on Grief 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. Expanding on her original New Yorker 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 ER -