Chimamanda Adichie has made a comeback with her new book, Dream Count, 11 years since the publication of the last novel.
The author sits in an interview with The Guardian to discuss her new book, overcomes the writer’s obstacles, and welcomes twin sons.
Dream Count (Dream Count) features the intertwined story of four women. It is based in the United States and Nigeria and covers immigration experiences, mother-daughter relationships, stress of women getting married and having children, and late mothers.
“I don’t want to leave such a long gap between novels,” Chimamanda said in an interview with Charlotte Edwards.
“When I was pregnant [with her daughter]what happened. I’ve been through many years and almost stopped writing. This is unbearable.
“I don’t like using expressions like ‘Writer’s Barrier’ because I’m superstitious. But I have many years of people who feel that I’ve been eliminated from my creative self, my imagination and creation from my creativity . I can’t write nonfiction, which is good.
After her father passed away in 2020, she said she was struggling with words to write sad notes about the 2021 publication). Then, when her mother died a few months later in 2021, she thought she hadn’t written about her mother.
At that time, she began to write dreams, “Only when I was almost done, I realized, my God, it was about my mother. It was not intentional. I was glad that this was not a sad book. She didn’t want to Offer her a sad book.”
Chimamanda, who has a 9-year-old daughter, also welcomes the 10-month-old twin sons when interviewed.
She keeps this part of her life in a private place because, according to her, she is “very resistant” and “seldom” to talk about her private life.
Read the full interview here.
