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Thank you. Love. This is the run-through. I'm Chloe Mel.

And I'm Choma Nardi.

Choma, I am so excited for you to hear today's interview.

Our books and cultures are Chloe Shama and I got to speak with Chimamanda Ngozi Adich.

In anticipation of her new novel Dream Count, which has been so hotly anticipated, Chloe edited Chimamanda's beautiful piece

in the March issue, and they loved working together. And Choma, you're a Chimamanda fan,

no? Yes, I am a huge Chimamanda fan.

In fact, when I met her at an event, I burst into tears in front of her because it was

like really moving.

She has a very calm, wise.

Almost like you're in the presence of like an oracle with her because she just has this

such a regal presence like

it's it's totally enthralling so I just basically told her that the book that she wrote

called Half of a Yellow Sun I've read I haven't read a new book I've read almost all of her books

um and it's about the the civil war in Nigeria, the Befran War.

And I just told her, like, it made me understand my father because I, my dad wouldn't talk about the civil war.

Wow.

So there was a side of him that I just, you know, that was, I guess, locked away.

And in that moment, I just, I just burst into tears.

Was she comforting?

She was super comforting.

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