Dream Count

Praise

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)