PositiveThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)... an eloquent dirge ... One of the engaging things about the book is that most of the anecdotes and jokes Adichie tells to bring her father back to life are not very funny. They are to real jokes as family snapshots are to professional photographs, and yet they work beautifully to conjure up the absence ... There is much wisdom in this short book, including the hard truth that grief is the price we pay for attachment.
