Notes on Grief

A Memoir

Notes on Grief is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's memoir of the sudden death of her father, James Nwoye Adichie, during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Expanded from her essay in The New Yorker, it records her shock, anger, loneliness, and attempts to mourn while separated from family in Nigeria. The book also remembers her father's life, including his survival of the Biafran war and his career as a statistics professor. It examines grief as both an intensely personal experience and a shared familial and cultural one.

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Knopf · First published 2021 · 80 pages