We have met before, a few years ago, when her third novel Americanah was published, a book that examines what it is to be a Nigerian woman living in the US, and that went on to win a National Book Critics’ Circle award. How do you intend to keep the love of people like me?”Īdichie and I are in a coffee shop near her home in the Baltimore suburbs. But since you started this whole feminism thing, and since you started to talk about this gay thing, I’m just not sure about you any more. “I used to love you,” she recalls him saying. It’s an ambivalence with which many Nigerians regard her, too last year, the workshop ended in a question-and-answer session, during which a young man rose to ask the famous novelist a question. When Adichie is in Nigeria, where her parents and extended family still live, she has a house in the vast city she regards with the complicated love and condescension of the part-time expat. For much of the year, Adichie lives in a town 30 minutes west of Baltimore, where her Nigerian-American husband works as a medic and the 39-year-old writes in the quiet of a suburban home. Filled with compassionate guidance and advice, it gets right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century, and starts a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was in Lagos last summer, teaching a writing workshop as part of an annual schedule that sees her time divided between Nigeria and the US. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie’s letter of response: fifteen invaluable suggestions-direct, wryly funny, and perceptive-for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman.
The award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Americanah gives us this powerful statement about feminism today-written as a letter to a friend.Ī few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted to know how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist.MediaType eBook shortDescription NATIONAL BESTSELLER IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages OverDrive Product Record sortTitle Dear Ijeawele or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions crossRefId 3082731 images
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