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Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

12 reviews

matmatmatty's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

4.75

Beautifully written, you can feel the grief from the pages.

A really interesting read on how grief affects us.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Kidnapping and War

sweetchocolatez's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Medical content and War

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.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Kidnapping and War

lauren16297's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Death and War

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 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

Moderate: Kidnapping, Death of parent, and War

jordan_noel's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

4.25

I read this book after I lost my mom, hoping to find some solidarity and comfort.

Reading it, I often felt myself distancing from Adichie’s explanation of grief. I often had very different experiences in dealing with my mother’s death and found we had very differing views of grieving and being able to continue with life.

Still, Adichie’s honest, hopeful reflections were a great comfort in grief and isolation nonetheless.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Minor: War

tatjanasbooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: War

maxthefish's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Medical content, Kidnapping, and War

guinness74's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Adichie is a strong, brilliant voice in the pantheon of writers that I enjoy. I have not read all of her works, but those I have speak to me. And, though I have been mostly untouched by the grief that she evinces in this short book, I am aware of the fleeting nature of human life and the realization that my own parents are coming into the sunset of their lives, so this book seems to have more to tell me in its wisdom. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Kidnapping, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

deenmachine's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Love a short grief book. Often that's all I really need or can handle. This one doesn't capture it all but it isn't meant to. A loving and bittersweet reflection on her father and what it is to lose someone you really, really care about

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: War