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isabelvegga's review against another edition
emotional
fast-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Kidnapping
regnistegra's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
5.0
I’ve read a handful of books on grieving since the death of my dad. This is the one I recommend to anyone grieving the loss of a parent and searching for someone to put to words all the feelings and experiences. This is the one I would recommend to someone who hasn’t experienced this kind of loss but is supporting someone else who has, and needs help to understand.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief and Death of parent
Moderate: Chronic illness and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Medical content and Car accident
miss_elease's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
sad
slow-paced
5.0
teared up several times. adiche captures the unmooring of grief while simultaneously inviting us to witness the love she has for her father and the love her father has for his children.
Grief has, as one of its many egregious components, the onset of doubt. No, I am not imagining it. Yes, my father truly was lovely.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent
Minor: Kidnapping and War
maggiestraveledbookshelf's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
“For the rest of my life, I will live with my hands outstretched for things that are no longer there.”
Rating: 5 stars ⭐️
This work is devastatingly beautiful.
CW: Death of a parent
Overview:
•Short nonfiction book (>100 pages)
•Collection of essays about grief
•Impactful and vulnerable writing style
Reading this felt like I was reading Adichie’s personal grieving journal. Her heartache was on every page, in every line.
This book gifts us readers two main things:
1 - that feeling of solidarity in an emotion that can be so isolating. She writes so eloquently about how the death of a loved one changes whom we are at our core.
2 - an intimate look into her relationship with her father. I feel like I know how special he was to her and to the world.
If you are emotionally ready to read about grief, I highly recommend this book.
✨ Read via Libby ✨
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death of parent
lauren16297's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Death of parent
Minor: Death and War
lisapparition's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Kidnapping
colormemolly's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief and Death of parent
grandmerin's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
3.5
took a while to connect with the story because i didn’t know her dad, feels like a published journal entry. there are some good lines but nothing spectacular either
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief and Death of parent
Moderate: Kidnapping, Death of parent, and War
claraamd's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent
blakeandbooks's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
Chimamanda writes with such vulnerable emotions on grieving her father that you cannot help but feel her grief yourself. Especially if you’ve ever lost someone you love and cherish, losing them can take such a toll on your overall wellbeing. You feel that through every line of this book. We all lived through COVID and the isolation and loneliness that it brought upon us. She peels back the curtain on what it was like for her family to all have to video chat weekly, only to be told one day her father passed away in their home in Nigeria and having to delay the funeral due to airports being shut down and no flights going in or out of countries. I had 4 family members pass during COVID (2 from COVID), and it was awful to experience being unable to properly gather for our loved ones and grieve together during that time.
It’s a short read, but it packs a punch to the gut. Reading her words on loss and grief made me sit with her words and my own feelings on those I’ve lost. It can be difficult to evoke emotions from others, and Chimamanda always does such an incredible job of peeling back layers and making the reader feel and empathize.
If you are grieving or have grieved or just want to read a beautifully written book, I recommend reading these notes. She did not have to be vulnerable and lay out these words to us, but I am grateful that she did.
It’s a short read, but it packs a punch to the gut. Reading her words on loss and grief made me sit with her words and my own feelings on those I’ve lost. It can be difficult to evoke emotions from others, and Chimamanda always does such an incredible job of peeling back layers and making the reader feel and empathize.
If you are grieving or have grieved or just want to read a beautifully written book, I recommend reading these notes. She did not have to be vulnerable and lay out these words to us, but I am grateful that she did.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief and Death of parent
Moderate: Death