
MediaType eBook shortDescription NATIONAL BESTSELLER PublishDate T05:00:00+00:00 publishDateText otherFormatIdentifiers A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Winner of Winners” award Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, both national bestsellers.

Henry Prize Stories, Financial Times, and Zoetrope: All-Story.

Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, The O.

Here are fifteen invaluable suggestions-compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive-for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman.įrom encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality.ĭebunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can "allow" women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response. From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today - written as a letter to a friend.Ī few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist.
