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A few years ago, Chimamanda Adichie received a message from a childhood friend asking for advice: She wanted to know how to raise her newborn daughter to be a feminist.

For Adichie — a best-selling author who has also made a name for herself as a leading feminist voice — the question was a bit daunting, but she wrote a long letter back to her friend. Now, that letter has been published as a book. It’s called Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, and it talks about everything from how to choose toys to teaching self-reliance to challenging traditional gender roles.

Adichie says writing the letter was useful for her, too. “Yes, I wrote it for my friend, but I think to a large extent it was also my way of mapping out my own thinking. Because I have talked a lot about these things and I care very much about them and I get very passionate … but I realized I didn’t actually have a concrete map of the particular, specific things that I think will help if we do them differently.”

How Do You Raise A Feminist Daughter? Chimamanda Adichie Has 15 Suggestions

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Now that you're working on a book, what are some of your favorite books, and who are the writers that inspire you? What is your book going to be about?

It’s young adult sci-fi-- and is basically a way for me to work through my fears of us colonizing Mars.

Although I think it’ll read more like The Host, which is technically not young adult. Authors that I love on the YA front are Meg Cabbot (the OG) and Victoria Aveyard, who’s inspiring both because she’s so young and graduated from my school 3 (?) years ago-- already she’s written 3 books and sold a movie. I think the same for Veronica Roth, in terms of age and wow factor. I interviewed Aveyard a while back and learned that interests in film and literature can intersect and often benefit the writer. Not everything needs to be a screenplay (which is a format I was trying to write this story in for a long, long time) for it to become a movie one day.

I’m very excited!