A review by bbboeken
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

1.0

Oh well. I have the same reflection as with Joan Didion's _The Year of Magical Thinking_. This short novella seems to be all about the author herself and not really about grief or the person who has passed on. It comes across as very self-centred or self-focussed in so much as that I could not find anything universal in it. Even though grief is very universal and at the same time very personal, but this held nothing of that, no dichotomy, no wrestling with broader issues, only me-me-me.

(Of the two, I very much preferred Didion, at least she doesn't pretend.)