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Notes on Grief is a 2021 memoir written by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Presented in 30 short sections, Notes on Grief was written following the death of her father James Nwoye Adichie in June 2020, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic , [ 4 ] and is expanded from an essay first published in The New ...
Part grief support and part longitudinal research study, this book by the founder of Motherless Daughters offers page after page wisdom about how grief changes over time and how people who have ...
The book is narrated from rapidly alternating perspectives: the Dad, the Boys, and Crow—a human-sized bird that can speak, "equal parts babysitter, philosopher and therapist" to the family. [5] [6] The title refers to a poem by Emily Dickinson, ""Hope" is the thing with feathers". [7] Crow is the Crow from Ted Hughes' 1970 poetry book. [8]
One of the directors of the company at the time was T.S. Eliot, who found the book intensely moving. [3] Madeleine L’Engle, an American author best known for her young adult fiction, wrote a foreword for the 1989 printing of the book. In the foreword, she speaks of her own grief after losing her husband and notes the similarities and differences.
Kessler has also proposed "Meaning" as a sixth stage of grief. [29] Other authors have also explored and expanded upon stage theories, such as Claire Bidwell Smith in her book Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief, which addresses additional aspects of emotional response and adjustment beyond Kübler-Ross’s original framework. [30]
In Bookmarks' January/February 2006 issue, the book received 4.00 out of 5 stars based on aggregating critic's reviews, with the critical summary saying, "It is the book’s raw honesty and Didion’s meticulous reporting and research that allow her memoir to transcend the merely personal and become a universal road map of loss".
This process allows the person to live their daily life as a changed individual without being consumed by the grieving they are facing. [11] [12] William Worden calls this the "four tasks of grief". [13] Therese A. Rando calls the letting-go process an emancipation from bondage due to the strength required for change and recovery. [citation needed]
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