An Evening with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Dream Count, 17 October | Event in Harrisburg | AllEvents

An Evening with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Dream Count

Midtown Scholar Bookstore

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Fri, 17 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

1 hour

Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts

Starting at USD 44

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Date & Location

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm (EDT)

Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts

222 Market St, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States

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An Evening with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Dream Count
Tickets on-sale here: https://tinyurl.com/5n7j2wcu

The 13th Annual Harrisburg Book Festival and Midtown Scholar Bookstore are honored to welcome internationally renowned author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Harrisburg for a keynote conversation on her new novel, Dream Count.

This is a ticketed event. Every ticket includes a signed copy of the book and one general admission ticket. Doors will open at 6:00pm, and the event will begin at 7:00pm. This event will be held at the Whitaker Centerof Science & the Arts.

About the Book:

A publishing event ten years in the making—a searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires.

Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until—betrayed and brokenhearted—she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America—but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve.

In Dream Count, Adichie trains her fierce eye on these women in a sparkling, transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself. Is true happiness ever attainable or is it just a fleeting state? And how honest must we be with ourselves in order to love, and to be loved? A trenchant reflection on the choices we make and those made for us, on daughters and mothers, on our interconnected world, Dream Count pulses with emotional urgency and poignant, unflinching observations of the human heart, in language that soars with beauty and power. It confirms Adichie’s status as one of the most exciting and dynamic writers on the literary landscape.

About the Author:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Best of the Best” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. She is the author of Notes on Grief, and, most recently, Dream Count. Additionally, she has witten a children’s book, Mama’s Sleeping Scarf under the name Nwa Grace-James. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

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Ticket Info

Tickets for An Evening with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Dream Count can be booked here.

Ticket type Ticket price
One Premier Seat + One Signed Book 55 USD
One General Admission Seat + One Signed Book 44 USD
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An Evening with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Dream Count, 17 October | Event in Harrisburg | AllEvents
An Evening with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Dream Count
Fri, 17 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm
USD 44