Dream Count

A publisher of travel writing, locked down and alone, begins an interrogation of her past loves. Her best friend, her cousin and her housekeeper each take up the thread, until four lives assemble into one portrait of longing.

Publisher's blurb

Synopsis

Adichie's first novel in more than a decade moves between Maryland, Lagos, Abuja and Guinea, following Chiamaka and the three women closest to her. Each section is a self-contained reckoning - with mothers, with men, with the immigrant's double ledger of gratitude and grievance - and each quietly revises what came before. The final movement, drawn from a real assault case, turns the book from a study of romantic disappointment into something angrier and larger about who is believed.

The editorial feature

The prose is unhurried and exact, and the structural gamble pays off: four voices that could have felt like four short stories instead accumulate into an argument. Adichie is very funny about desire and merciless about self-deception, and the Kadiatou section is the most powerful writing of her career.

Book details

Genre

Literary Fiction

Released

4 March 2025

Publisher

Knopf

Extent

416 pages

Featured on

4 March 2025

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