Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Dream Count” feels like a homecoming, writes Associated Press reviewer Helen Wieffering.

In her long-awaited return to fiction, the author of "Americanah" presents her intricately-woven novel that explores love, ambition, family expectations, and the forces that shape women's choices.

The author’s first book in more than a decade engagingly explores the conflict between liberal individualism and the real demands of a community in which our individualities might flourish

Nigerian American writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie published her third novel, “Americanah,” which cemented her reputation as an international literary star. Since then, she has published an epistolary book on feminism,

Dream Count,” Adichie’s first novel in more than a decade, rotates between the stories of four women with roots in Nigeria.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie feels contemporary culture is guilty of “shying away from the all-too human possibility of contradiction”. Her fourth novel, Dream Count, deals beautifully with the fallibility of perception.

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When her father died, the author of “Americanah” produced a slim work of nonfiction. When her mother died, she poured her grief into a sprawling 416-page novel.

"Dream Count", Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's first novel in over a decade, is "dreamy indeed", said Alexandra Jacobs in The New York Times. An "accumulation of scenes and sensations, cloud-like in their contour", it's set against the backdrop of the pandemic that distorted "time itself".

In turns, the book shifts its focus to three other women and their dreams. There is Chia’s friend Zikora, an ambitious lawyer who is desperate to be a mother, and Chia’s brazen cousin Omelogor, a banker in Nigeria who has a crisis of confidence upon coming to America.