DEAR IJEAWELE OR A FEMINIST MANIFESTO IN FIFTEEN SUGGESTIONS

NGOZI ADICHIE, CHIMAMANDA

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.