A Most Anticipated Book of 2025 at Oprah Daily, Readers Digest, The Seattle Times, LitHub, The Chicago Review of Books, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Radio Times
★ “As in her previous works of fiction—most recently Americanah (2013)—Adiche makes her prose hum and throb with elegantly wrought and empathetic observations. . . . In today's world, when people seem at once too cut off and too much in each other's business, readers will feel communion with these tense, put-upon, yet resilient women in crisis. Adichie weaves stories of heartbreak and travail that are timely, touching, and trenchant.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
★ Adichie returns to fiction after more than a decade with this superb tale of the fleeting joys and abiding disappointments of four African women on both sides of the Atlantic. . . . [She] riffs brilliantly on what feminism means to her characters and renders each woman’s story in a distinctive voice…This is well worth the wait.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
★ “Adichie portrays four women united by culture, geopolitics, immigration, sexism, trauma, and longing. . . . [She] electrifies her depictions of each character with stinging details and lacerating social critiques to striking, hilarious, and heartbreaking effect ... Every aspect of this transfixing, intimate, and astute group portrait is ablaze with scorching insights into the maddening absurdities and injustices that continue to plague women’s lives. . . Adichie’s magnificently vital, sharply forthright novel will be one of the year’s most sought after and resounding titles.”
— Booklist (starred review)