Dream Count: A Novel, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
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Fiction, 416 pp.
Follows the lives of three Nigerian women of privilege, and one of their former housekeepers, a Guinean maid, who is raped at her job as a hotel maid. The “dream count” of the title is Chia’s romantic recasting of “body count” — how past affairs, and their unfulfilled potential, linger in thought and emotion.Grapples with the nature of love itself. Is true happiness ever attainable or is it just a fleeting state? How honest must we be with ourselves in order to love, and to be loved? A reflection on the choices we make and those made for us, on daughters and mothers, on our interconnected world.
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