By Submissions Editor (The Brittle Paper)
ISBN: 9780008685744
Format: Trade Paperback
The African literary world is abuzz with excitement. Award winning Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has a novel coming out titled Dream Count that will be published by 4th Estate on March 4, 2025. It explores the lives, loves, and regrets of four Nigerian women against the backdrop of the pandemic.
Dream Count is more than just a new book—it’s a monumental return for fans who have been waiting for Adichie to go back to writing long-form fiction. By the time Dream Count comes out next year, it would be nearly twelve years since her last novel. In the intervening years, Adichie has published essays, short stories, four chapbooks—Dear Ijeawele, We Should All Be Feminists, Notes on Grief—and, most recently, a children’s book. For fans, Dream Count is a return to the genre that made them fall in love with her writing in the first place.
The novel is centered on Chiamaka, is a Nigerian travel writer living in the U.S. During the pandemic, she revisits her past relationships and grapples with feelings of longing and loss. Here is a bit of synopsis:
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, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until—betrayed and brokenhearted—she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, 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.
