Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

no small job, but Adichie approaches the task with tenderness in her forthright advice to a friend, Dear Ijeawele. Adichie envisions ways mothers can nurture strong girls, from rejecting traditional gender roles to leading by example (by simply being a full person ). Dear Ijeawele is a volume as fierce and illuminating as bringing up a confident daughter, both with love at their core. Jordan Sebastian Bonner, Oprah.com, 2 Books About Being a Woman Everyone Needs to Read

Tips on how to raise the next gen to be gender equal. Read it, and then lend it to your friend who just had a kid. It'll take you an hour. And you'll be glad you did. ­Skimm Reads

Adichie epitomizes and epistolizes our potential in Dear Ijeawele. Sloane Crosely, Vanity Fair 

Adichie s suggestions are logical and stated clearly, full of her dry wit, and range from the obvious ( Do it together ) to the bold ( Reject likeability ). The more radical suggestions are the ones that encourage mothers to be complete human beings, not merely hosts. And as much as this is a book written to mothers of daughters, fathers of daughters would benefit from reading it, too; parents in general would do well to try to raise children who won't have to grow up and read it at all . . . Powerful and life-affirming, offering wisdom for everyone. Nia Hampton, The Village Voice
 
Personal and urgent . . . Adichie is passionate about equality. Her new book offers 15 ways that we can encourage girls to be strong, to plant seeds of feminism. But more than that, Adichie hopes the book will help move us toward a world that is more gender equal. Doing so means knocking down ingrained assumptions about how men and women think and behave. Nora Krug, The Washington Post
 
In We Should All Be Feminists, Adichie distilled the essence of feminism into a powerful treatise. Now, in Dear Ijeawele, she goes a step further and covers every feminist topic you can imagine domestic chores, gendered language, female sexuality, objectification, race, and much more. I am amazed at Adichie s ability to communicate so effectively and efficiently. If you liked We Should All Be Feminists, you will LOVE Dear Ijeawele. Kate Scott, Book Riot, The Best Books We Read in February
 
Wise but funny and thought-provoking. Stephanie Topacio Long, Bustle, The 20 Best Nonfiction Books Coming in March 2017
 
Adichie has partly written Dear Ijeawele to reclaim the word feminism from its abusers and misusers. Her advice is not only to provide children with alternatives to empower boys and girls to understand there is no single way to be but also to understand that the only universal in this world is difference.  Adichie is a brilliant novelist and a serious thinker, and she is also someone who makes no apology for her own trivial interests. Her understanding of feminism is intertwined with her understanding that we all want to be more than one thing. Emma Brockes, The Guardian (UK)