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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‎

Notes on Grief

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A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. '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' On 10 June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria. In this tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker text, his daughter, a self-confessed daddy's girl, remembers her beloved father. Notes on Grief is at once a tribute to a long life of grace and wisdom, the story of a daughter's fierce love for a parent, and a revealing examination of the layers of loss and the nature of grief.
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  • Anaghahas quoted2 years ago
    grief belonged to other people. Does love bring, even if unconsciously, the delusional arrogance of expecting never to be touched by grief?
  • Beenzu Muzyambahas quoted2 years ago
    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.
  • Beenzu Muzyambahas quoted2 years ago
    I must spare my loved ones my endless roiling thoughts

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