Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will read from her new novel Dream Count, followed by an on-stage conversation led by Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan at Cullen Theater at the Wortham Center. The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing. 

The event is presented as part of the 2025/2026 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series.  To purchase a reading series season subscription click here. 

For more information on $5 general admission tickets, click here.

MacArthur Fellow Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, born in Nigeria, is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was a 2007 Orange Prize winner and a New York Times Notable Book; and Americanah, which the Los Angeles Times describes as “part love story, part social critique, and one of the best books you’ll read this year.” San Francisco Chronicle called the book, “dazzling… funny and defiant, and simultaneously so wise.” Her other books include 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.

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan is Assistant Professor of English at Rice University, where she teaches Asian American and South Asian Anglophone literature and cultural studies. A former ethnic media editor and freelance essayist, she writes widely on contemporary literature, media, and politics. Srinivasan is co-editor of the award-winning Thinking with an Accent (2023), co-author of the epistolary memoir The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once (2025), and author of Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone (2025). Her editorial work spans volumes on the legacies of 1990s theory, the fate of the postcolonial, the Asian Century, and pandemic fiction. Her next book, What is We?, is forthcoming.

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