The story begins with what is a not-so-distant memory for many: keeping up with loved ones through Zoom calls during lockdown. Dream Count temporally shifts back and forth as Chiamaka, a Nigerian ...

“Immigrants are desperate to raise children who think they have a right to dream.” — “Dream Count,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie It has been a very long wait since Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s previous ...

Editor’s Note: This article is a review and includes subjective thoughts, opinions and critiques. The literary superstar known for award-winning books “Americanah” and “We Should All Be Feminists” is ...

Award-winning Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel Dream Count has landed. It’s been over a decade since Adichie published her previous novel, Americanah, following on global ...

Award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s latest novel “Dream Count” poses the question: How do we grapple with the unknown? Or, to be more specific: How do Nigerian-American immigrant women, ...

Dream Count is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's first novel in a decade. (Author photo credit: Carlos Figueroa via Wikimedia Commons 4.0) Around 15 years ago, TED Talks uploaded a talk by the Nigerian ...

The Nigerian-American author returns with an astute and moving exploration of female experience ‘Novels had always felt to me truer than what was real,” declares a character in Dream Count, the highly ...

We’ve always heard of body count, that phrase referring to the number of sexual partners a person has—often used to judge women more harshly than men. But in ‘Dream Count’, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s brand of realism has always depended on dreamy characters dreaming of, say, exuberant sexual pleasures or the protections of extended family relations or the new freedoms ...