{"title":"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie","description":"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.","products":[{"product_id":"dream-count-hardcover","title":"Dream Count - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Most Anticipated Book of 2025 from \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReaders Digest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e, LitHub, \u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, BET, and \u003ci\u003eRadio Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA publishing event ten years in the making\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003ea searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmericanah\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWe Should All Be Feminists--\u003c\/i\u003ethe story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChiamaka 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDream Count, \u003c\/i\u003e 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? 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