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From your best-selling writer of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a robust new statement about feminism today–written like a letter to a friend.

A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a notice from a dear friend from years as a child, asking her how exactly to raise her baby gal being a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is usually Adichie’s letter of response.

Listed below are fifteen very helpful suggestions– about Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive–for how to empower a little girl to become a strong, independent girl. From encouraging her to select a helicopter, and not just a doll, as a gadget if she so desires; having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality; debunking the misconception that women are in some way biologically arranged to be in the kitchen producing dinner, which males can ‘allow’ females to have complete careers, Dear Ijeawele will go right to the center of intimate politics in the twenty-first hundred years. It will start a new and urgently required conversation in what it really means to be a woman today.