A new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is coming next year.
Alfred A. Knopf will publish Adichie’s Dream Count in the spring, the press announced in a news release. It will be Adichie’s first novel in more than a decade.
Adichie made her fiction debut in 2003 with Purple Hibiscus, which was a finalist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She followed that up three years later with Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Women’s Prize.
In 2013, she published Americanah, which became a bestseller and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other works include a short story collection, The Thing Around Your Neck, the nonfiction books We Should All Be Feminists and Notes on Grief, and the children’s book Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, illustrated by Joelle Avelino.
Dream Count follows four women navigating the Covid-19 pandemic and their relationships. “A trenchant reflection on the choices we make and those made for us, on daughters and mothers, on our interconnected world, Dream Count pulses with emotional urgency and poignant, unflinching observations of the human heart, in language that soars with beauty and power,” Knopf says. “It confirms Adichie’s status as one of the most exciting and dynamic writers on the literary landscape.”
Adichie announced her novel on Instagram, writing, “The writing process has been arduous and has also been filled with ardor. I am deeply excited about this book. I am so proud to have finished it. I cannot wait for my wonderful fans to read it.”
Dream Count is slated for publication on March 4, 2025.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
