New Release: 'Dream Count' by Chmamanda Ngozi Adichie'

 

Yesterday, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's new novel, Dream Count was formally released in Lagos. It's the author's first full-length novel since Americanah, which was published in 2013. In between, Adichie has written an essay, We Should All Be Feminists (2014), a manifesto in book form, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017), an 80-page memoir,  Notes on Grief in 2017, and her debut children's picture book, Mama's Sleeping Scarf in 2023. 

Dream Count, available in paperback, hardback and audio, is about Chiamaka,  a travel writer who finds herself stranded in the US during the Covid pandemic. She looks back at her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until — she turns to the last person she thought she needed,  after experiencing a betrayal.  Omelogor, Chiamaka’s outspoken and successful cousin, begins to question how well she knows herself. Meanwhile, Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is raising her daughter in America – but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve.

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, the novel has already been longlisted for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction.

No doubt, fans are overjoyed at Chimamanda's new addition to her impressive bibliography.