RaveiNews (UK)... a direct response to early grief – fast, raw and immediate. It explores the first months of pain and processing, yet overflowing in the text, served in equal measure, is love ... It feels raw, even for a book about grief. Some wait years to preserve these thoughts; Adichie is examining them now, constantly stepping into her grief and then, with the same feet, twisting away again to look at herself and examine what is happening to her ... The observations are sharp but it is not uncomfortable; her grief is hard, sad, full of rage and laughter – as all grief is. My heart broke at her fear of her mother dying ... It is no salve for her own grief, but Adichie’s brave observance of her own pain, will be a gift to those also suffering their first year of loss in these strange times.
