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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: âMy Madness Will Now Bare Itselfâ
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By Sarah Broom
NOTES ON GRIEF
By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
June 2020 marked the 40th anniversary of my fatherâs death. In the months leading up to then Iâd plotted ritualistic ways I might mark such loss. But by the time the anniversary arrived, more than 380,000 were dead from Covid. That grief of mine, no longer singular, was subsumed in the collective wail. That is, until Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieâs visceral exploration of her own fatherâs unexpected death that month. In 30 short sections, âNotes on Griefâ lays a path by which we might mourn our individual traumas among the aggregate suffering of this harrowing time. Our guide, Adichie, is uncloaked, full of âwretched, roaring rage,â teaching us within the space of this work how to gather our disparate selves and navigate the still-raging pandemic. In doing this, she tells a global story of this moment