Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Americanah gives us this powerful statement about feminism today written as a letter to a friend.

A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted to know how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie s letter of response: fifteen invaluable suggestions direct, wryly funny, and perceptive for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. Filled with compassionate guidance and advice, it gets right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century, and starts a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.

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