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,

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.

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.

"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".

The world has waited a decade for Adichie’s next novel: now, the author, activist and cultural phenomenon is back with a book full of dreams as big as her own

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.

Plus Colwill Brown’s “We Pretty Pieces of Flesh.”

In Dream Count, Adichie tells the interlaced stories of three women, chronicling their choices, aspirations, desires, and disappointments.