For our December book, facilitator Katie Allen has chosen Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Adichie's beloved father's death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure.
Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page--and never without touches of rich, honest humor--Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father's death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which he'd stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria.
The book is available for purchase at The Frugal Frigate, and is 10% off when you mention book club.
We hope you can join us!
Masks are required for indoor group gatherings.
Facebook Event can be found here: https://fb.me/e/2ALQaSRce
Event date:
Thursday, December 9, 2021 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Event address:
9 N. 6th Street
Redlands, CA 92373-5258
$16.00
ISBN: 9780593320808
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Knopf - May 11th, 2021