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Notes on Grief
- Narrated by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
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Summary
A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the best-selling 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 10th 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.
Critic reviews
"Both emotional and austere, a work of dignity and of unravelling." (Guardian)
"An exquisite howl of pain written in the aftermath, last year, of the unexpected death of her father." (Telgraph)
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- Kindle Customer
- 21-07-22
Comforting, honest and somehow uplifting!
A truly validating listen for anyone who's grieved a parent. So glad I listened.
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- Sophie
- 10-01-24
Perfection
How to describe the indescribable? Well here it is. An essential piece from an exquisite writer.
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- Neozoe
- 22-09-21
Very relatable... to a point
She helped me contextualize my grief. The stages of grief were described very aptly
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-01-23
A touching portrayal of grief
So beautifully written and performed. You must listen to this if you want to connect with your own grief through the words of another. My first listen to a book by Chimamanda after hearing her speak with such wisdom on the radio about freedom of speech. An incredible woman.
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- Fatima Ademola-Asuni
- 13-07-21
Notes …
Chimamanda captures every feeling I had towards the passing of my father whom I too adored.
Her writing brings color to the passing of a loved one even though all we see is grey. I hope others listen to this and feel a small unraveling of the hurt buried in their chest that aches in a way that sometimes makes one catch one’s breath.
Love was here and love lived with us a while.
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- Mrs. P. J. P. Leishman
- 12-07-21
Grief
It was very much what I felt when my husband died. Absolutely recommended it for anyone going through loss.
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- David Adams
- 02-07-21
Poignant
A relevant and fascinating listen. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie takes us through her experience of the death of a loved one. I'd like to thank her for sharing such a personal experience with us.
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- Sharon
- 07-12-21
A meditation on grief
Notes on Grief is a short listen, but it's not necessarily an easy one. It is a series of short notes about the death of the author's father and how she moved through the beginning stages of her grief. It's touching and relatable, which brought back the emotions of some of my own losses.
I gave it an overall 4 stars because I'm not sure I would listen to it again. The performance was lovely, and it is not an easy topic to sit with.
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- J Aravind
- 22-06-21
It just sounded like me talking to me
As I pre-ordered this book, I was questioning myself - what is this sadistic pleasure that I was seeking by listening to a daughter mourning the passing of her father? I still ordered it and listened on the day it is released. The grief that I had great struggle sharing with family and friends was being narrated, sometime word by word in almost all chapters. How can it be so similar?
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- Anonymous User
- 25-08-21
Achingly beautiful
Grief is such a personal experience. I found comfort in listening to this beautifully told personal experience. Thank you for sharing.
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