Award-winning author and writer, Chimamanda Adichie is set to release a new book titled ‘Dream Count’. The book which has been in the making for ten years is set to be released in March 2025 according to its publisher, Penguin Random House.
Dream Count is based on the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires. The storyline follows the life of Chiamaka, a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets.
Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until—betrayed and brokenhearted—she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America—but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve.
Speaking about the book on Wednesday in an Instagram post, Adichie wrote:
DREAM COUNT is contemporary: Covid. Sexual assault inspired by a true story. Depression. A man’s extreme ‘ghosting’ of a woman. Fibroids. Teenage self-esteem. PMS.
But also timeless: Injustice. Dignity. Regret. What is a full life? What does ‘meaning’ mean?
DREAM COUNT is global: Brazil, Amsterdam, Conakry, Enugu, Maryland, Copenhagen, Mexico, Abuja, Korea, Santiago, Delhi, London, Cartagena, Anambra, New York, Portugal, Washington DC, Kenya, Germany, Italy, Addis, Switzerland, Zambia, Paris, Skopje, Lagos. But quintessentially African at heart.
Dream Count is the first feature-length novel of Chimamanda Adichie in 11 years. Her last was Americanah in 2013.
She is also the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Best of the Best” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions.