A spare, unsentimental meditation on loss by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.

Written after the sudden death of her father in June 2020, Notes on Grief traces the strange education that mourning forces on you — the anger, the flatness, the clichés people reach for when language fails. Adichie examines how grief distorts time, how it remakes the body, and how love doesn’t end so much as change state.

Expanded from her original New Yorker essay, this is both a tribute to a deeply loved father and a precise anatomy of grief itself. It is intimate, unsparing, and unwilling to tidy anything up for the comfort of the reader.

Hardcover. Excellent condition.