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African-born author Dinaw Mengestu's prose is praised as "heart-rending and indelible" (Publishers Weekly), and his debut novel The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears was a New York Times Notable Book. In How to Read the Air, Mengestu crafts a moving tale about one man's search for identity. After his estranged Ethiopian immigrant father dies, Jonas hopes to answer questions about his heritage and culture. So he leaves his wife and home in New York and sets out across the trail his own parents took when they first arrived in America.
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A 2010 New York Times Book Review Notable Book
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
A Barack Obama Reading List Pick
Finalist for the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Selected for the October 2010 Indie Next List
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Author Bio: Dinaw Mengestu
Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1978. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. He was also named a “20 under 40” writer to watch by the New Yorker. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Harper’s, Granta, and other publications. He lives with his family in Washington, DC.
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| Available Formats : | CD |
| Runtime: | 9.30 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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