Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST 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 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, has been successful at everything until—betrayed and brokenhearted—she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin Omelogor 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. Dream Count is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s searing, unforgettable story of these four women—a sparkling, transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself.

A Novel

Dream Count

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quiet felt the failure, and so I talked and talked, thinking how quickly we adapt, or pretend to adapt, to a life reduced to screen and sound

How slippery moralities are, how they circle and thin and change with circumstance

It is easy to be sad, sadness is a low-hanging fruit. Hope and happiness you have to reach higher for, and I didn’t teach her how

The male ego is a phenomenon easy to predict

Misery always had seemed a big dramatic emotion, but I knew now that it was small and slow-dripping, a shallow submerging that felt eternal

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“Mummy, I don't know what I'll do when you leave” she said. “My visa is long-stay”, her mother said. “I'm not going anywhere yet.

“It is easy to be sad; sadness is a low-hanging fruit. Hope and happiness you have to reach higher for and I didn’t teach her how.”.

“We issued advance payment guarantees for contracts inflated by three or four hundred percent, and I moved the surplus from the contractor’s account to accounts owned by the governor but which were not, of course, in his name.”

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