Dream Count

The long-awaited new novel, her first in ten years, from the best-selling and award-winning author of A sweeping story about four women whose lives are shaped by love, longing, and pain. Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in the US who is unlucky in love and coping with the pandemic on her own. Zikora, is a successful lawyer living in Washington DC who finds herself, unexpectedly, a heartbroken single mother. Omelogor is a scholar researching pornography for a Master’s thesis in Women’s Studies. And Nafissatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is trying to reclaim her dignity after a terrible sexual assault. In <Dream Count,< we come to know these interesting, challenging, and complicated women as they navigate their rich and complex lives. Long revered as a writer who understands how we talk about race and identity, Adichie uses these themes to explore a group of disparate and fascinating women and their worlds, turning a sharp eye on contemporary society. A major literary event, <Dream Count< is a thrilling, sizzling new work that confirms Adichie’s status as one of the most exciting and dynamic writers on the literary landscape.

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CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE is the author of Purple Hibiscus, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Half of a Yellow Sun, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Winner of Winners” award; and Americanah, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her books have been translated into thirty languages, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, and Financial Times. She grew up in Nigeria and divides her time between there and the United States.