3.5
Dream Count
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A publishing event ten years in the making—a searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires
A Most Anticipated Book of 2025 from The Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Elle, Oprah Daily, Readers Digest, The Seattle Times, LitHub, The Chicago Review of Books, BET, and Radio Times
Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until—betrayed and brokenhearted—she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America—but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve.
In Dream Count, Adichie trains her fierce eye on these women in a sparkling, transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself. Is true happiness ever attainable or is it just a fleeting state? And how honest must we be with ourselves in order to love, and to be loved? A trenchant reflection on the choices we make and those made for us, on daughters and mothers, on our interconnected world, Dream Count pulses with emotional urgency and poignant, unflinching observations of the human heart, in language that soars with beauty and power. It confirms Adichie’s status as one of the most exciting and dynamic writers on the literary landscape.
A Most Anticipated Book of 2025 from The Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Elle, Oprah Daily, Readers Digest, The Seattle Times, LitHub, The Chicago Review of Books, BET, and Radio Times
Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until—betrayed and brokenhearted—she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America—but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve.
In Dream Count, Adichie trains her fierce eye on these women in a sparkling, transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself. Is true happiness ever attainable or is it just a fleeting state? And how honest must we be with ourselves in order to love, and to be loved? A trenchant reflection on the choices we make and those made for us, on daughters and mothers, on our interconnected world, Dream Count pulses with emotional urgency and poignant, unflinching observations of the human heart, in language that soars with beauty and power. It confirms Adichie’s status as one of the most exciting and dynamic writers on the literary landscape.
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“It took me a few chapters to get into the book's rhythm, and then I was hooked. I like how we get a glimpse of the lives of 4 very different women, through their friendship, relationships, love experiences, and, for one, trauma. The book starts with Chiamaka's reflections on her life as the pandemic hits. She's in her early 40s, a beautiful, rich, single Nigerian woman mainly living in the US, somehow a bit Americanized. The other 3 women are related to Chia: Zikora, her friend from school, who will have a baby alone, because her boyfriend walked out when he found out she was pregnant, even though they had a solid relationship; Omelegore, Chia's cousin, fiercely single, happy with her non-committed diverse love affairs, and Kadiatou, Chia's maid/house caretaker/helper, who will be raped by a French politician (yes, the Strauss Kahn "case" reimagined by the author with what you wish would have been somehow Nafissatou Diallo's, the real person assaulted by Strauss Kahn, reaction when it was decided that there would be no trial.
I like how all 4 women feel real, their lives condensed/exposed, their thoughts described so you feel like you know them intimately. I love this author and how in all the books I have read from her, her writing is solidly good, trustworthy.
A few excerpts:
-"Paris featured too, another city I do not care for. Paris wears its badges of specialness too heavily and, therefore, gracelessly; Paris assumes it will charm you merely because it is charming. And Black Parisians look gray, as if the cordial contempt that France reserves for Black French people had formed ash on their skin." Quite a statement...
And regarding "tourist" countries...People become props, and countries become performances instead of places".
About Voltaire's heart: "The French removed his heart as a tribute to his greatness and put it in a library. If we Africans did this, they would call it uncivilized voodoo". So true.
-"Shut a door that I never even wanted to walk through, and I grieve something lost".
-"There is a grandeur to our humanity, but to be human day to day is not, and should not be, an endless procession of virtue. A victim need not be perfect to be deserving of justice."”
About Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Best of the Best” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Her most recent work is an essay about losing her father, Notes on Grief, and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a children’s book written as Nwa Grace-James. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.
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