Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Dream Count” feels like a homecoming, writes Associated Press reviewer Helen Wieffering.

In her long-awaited return to fiction, the author of "Americanah" presents her intricately-woven novel that explores love, ambition, family expectations, and the forces that shape women's choices.

Nigerian American writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie published her third novel, “Americanah,” which cemented her reputation as an international literary star. Since then, she has published an epistolary book on feminism,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says the writer's block she experienced after becoming pregnant with her first child was "terrifying". "It's a really frightening place to be, because writing is the thing that gives me meaning," the acclaimed Nigerian author, 47, tells the BBC's Emma Barnett.

When her father died, the author of “Americanah” produced a slim work of nonfiction. When her mother died, she poured her grief into a sprawling 416-page novel.

Dream Count,” Adichie’s first novel in more than a decade, rotates between the stories of four women with roots in Nigeria.

"Dream Count", Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's first novel in over a decade, is "dreamy indeed", said Alexandra Jacobs in The New York Times. An "accumulation of scenes and sensations, cloud-like in their contour", it's set against the backdrop of the pandemic that distorted "time itself".

In turns, the book shifts its focus to three other women and their dreams. There is Chia’s friend Zikora, an ambitious lawyer who is desperate to be a mother, and Chia’s brazen cousin Omelogor, a banker in Nigeria who has a crisis of confidence upon coming to America.

Discussing Dream Count, her first novel in 12 years, the Nigerian author shares her thoughts on masculinity, political chaos, and the future of fiction.

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Knopf; 416 pages; $32. Fourth Estate; £20. C an you be a good polemicist and a good novelist? To judge by the accolades offered to Chima

In Dream Count, Adichie tells the interlaced stories of three women, chronicling their choices, aspirations, desires, and disappointments.