- Social aspects, Feminist theory, Parental influences, Social conditions
Receiving a letter from a friend asking her how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist, Adichie responded with fifteen suggestions for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 80
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate, Vintage Espanol, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9781524733148
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“When a couple of years ago a friend of mine from childhood, who’d grown into a brilliant, strong, kind woman, asked me to tell her how to raise her baby girl a feminist, my first thought was that I did not know.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book, and a People and Black Issues Book Review Best Book of the Year; and the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Her latest novel Americanah, was published around the world in 2013, and has rec
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