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I am writing about my father in the past tense. But I really can't believe that I am recording my father in the past tense. "Notes on Grief" is a moving account of a daughter's grief. Using personal events as the starting point, Adichie meticulously describes the memories of close relatives and family life, deeply presenting the characteristics of the genre of grief memoirs, and how grief erases language and eliminates the boundaries of self-identity and time in such memoirs. As the most high-profile African-American female writer in the world's literary world today, Adichie focuses on issues such as family reconstruction, intergenerational differences, and communication difficulties caused by separation and migration, and records the isolation, disorder, and pain caused by the epidemic to immigrant families. Grief is a cruel education. It forces us to shed our shells and be reborn.

The innocent Ifemelu and Obinze met in a school in Lagos and had similar visions for the future. Like all Nigerian young people, their hometown seemed more like a transit point for their pursuit of the West. The beautiful and confident Ifemelu followed her aunt's footsteps and came to the United States, but experienced for the first time what it meant to be a "black". As she became increasingly poor and unable to continue her studies, she had to betray her love with Obinze in order to survive in this country. After 9/11, opportunities to study in the United States were repeatedly blocked. Obinze, who was not favored by fate, took advantage of his mother's study tour in the UK and came to the UK with her, but he had to face his status as an illegal immigrant. Obinze tried various menial and insecure jobs, but the indifference of British society and the snobbery of his fellow countrymen made him feel inexplicably disappointed with the West he originally imagined. After many years, Obinze has achieved success in a "Nigerian-style" way, and Ifemelu has also achieved great success with his pungent, sharp, and critical blog on American racism. I am eye-opening the bblog. When she feels that returning to Nigeria and starting a new life that is real and full of excitement and contrast with life in the United States, she and Obinze have to face the most difficult choice in their lives.