Notes on Grief theory and sand mining (spoiler: we

and sand mining (spoiler: we are running out of it

The result is this magisterial work that conjures a never-before-seen world of its protagonist

but the people who wave at her as she goes by

Wolfgang Hilbig and David Peace but uses his own style and almost hallucinatory techniques

and the Bouroullecs

Notes on Grief theory and sand mining (spoiler: weOn 10 June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria. In this tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker text, his daughter, a self confessed daddys girl, remembers her beloved father. Notes on Grief is at once a tribute to a long life of grace and wisdom, the story of a daughters fierce love for a parent, and a revealingmore examination of the layers of loss and the nature of grief. A devastating essay on