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Notes on Grief

par Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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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. 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. In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, 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. Notes on Grief 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.… (plus d'informations)
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This sweet short memoir contains Adichie's reflections after the sudden death of her father in June of 2020. My father died 13 months later, also during COVID shut-downs, and that's when friends, Dom and Nancy, gave me this lovely book. One of Adichie's descriptors really describes my father as well: "A gentle man and a gentleman." ( )
  booksinbed | Feb 3, 2024 |
gedachten over rouw bij het overlijden van haar vader (88 jaar) en is ook prof geweest in VS. ( )
  RMatthys | Jan 26, 2024 |
I’d been both looking forward to and dreading reading this one for years. I waited until it was the 25th anniversary of my mom‘s death. Adichie writes such beautiful and intimate descriptions of grief. Her words echoed my own feelings back to me.

“Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language”

“How is it that the world keeps going, breathing in and out unchanged, while in my soul there is a permanent scattering?”

“I finally understand why people get tattoos of those they have lost. The need to proclaim not merely the loss but the love, the continuity. I am my father’s daughter. It is an act of resistance and refusal: grief telling you it is over and your heart saying it is not; grief trying to shrink your love to the past and your heart saying it is present.”

“A friend sends me a line from my novel: 'Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved.' How odd to find it so exquisitely painful to read my own words.”

“Another revelation: how much laughter is a part of grief. Laughter is tightly braided into our family argot, and now we laugh remembering my father, but somewhere in the background there is a haze of disbelief. The laughter trails off. The laughter becomes tears and becomes sadness and becomes rage. I am unprepared for my wretched, roaring rage. In the face of this inferno that is sorrow, I am callow and unformed.”

“Does love bring, even if unconsciously, the delusional arrogance of expecting never to be touched by grief?”

“I back away from condolences. People are kind, people mean well, but knowing this does not make their words rankle less.”

“Grief is not gauzy; it is substantial, oppressive, a thing opaque. The weight is heaviest in the mornings, post-sleep: a leaden heart, a stubborn reality that refuses to budge. I will never see my father again. Never again. It feels as if I wake up only to sink and sink. In those moments, I am sure that I do not ever want to face the world again.”

“We don't know how we will grieve until we grieve.”

“I wish.. I wish.. the guilt gnaws at my soul. I think of all the things that could've happened, and all the ways the world could've been reshaped to prevent what happened on that day...” ( )
  bookworm12 | Jul 13, 2023 |
The book itself is well-written. Having experienced loss myself, I related to much of the emotions expressed throughout the book.

However, my personal opinion is that this should not have been published as a paid book. It is around 11 USD on Amazon, and for it being so short and such a personal recollection of thoughts and emotions regarding such an intimate moment, I feel like it somehow takes away from the authenticity of death and grief by making the book purchasable.

That being said, I think I would've been able to give this a full 5 stars had it been available for anyone online without the requirement of payment.

Just to clarify, I do not have a problem with paying for books — I am 100% a believer of paying the authors for their hard work. I just think there are instances where you charge, and instances you don't. But again, this is all my personal opinion.

Everyone can have different opinions, and the writing itself was lovely. This is my second book by Adichie and I am a fan of the writing style. ( )
  aubriebythepage | Jul 7, 2023 |
i picked it up randomly and couldnt stop reading. the writting was so beautiful and there was so many passages I highlighted and related to. i dont wanna rate it bc its a very personal book so it feels weird but i loved it and it made me tear up a couple times
  chardenlover | Jun 10, 2023 |
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Notes on Grief [...] is both emotional and austere, a work of dignity and of unravelling.
ajouté par Nevov | modifierThe Guardian, Catherine Taylor (May 15, 2021)
 

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From England, my brother set up the Zoom calls every Sunday, our boisterous lockdown ritual: two siblings joining from Lagos, three of us from the United States, and my parents, sometimes echoing and crackly, from Abba, our ancestral hometown in southeastern Nigeria.
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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. 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. In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, 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. Notes on Grief 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.

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