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How to Read the Air

By Dinaw Mengestu

By Dinaw Mengestu

By Dinaw Mengestu

By Dinaw Mengestu

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Oct 04, 2011 | ISBN 9781594485398

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Oct 14, 2010 | ISBN 9781101444351

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    About How to Read the Air

    A "beautifully written"* (New York Times Book Review) novel of redemption by a prize-winning international literary star.

    From the acclaimed author of The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears comes a heartbreaking literary masterwork about love, family, and the power of imagination.

    Following the death of his father Yosef, Jonas Woldemariam feels compelled to make sense of the volatile generational and cultural ties that have forged him. Leaving behind his marriage and job in New York, he sets out to retrace his mother and father’s honeymoon as young Ethiopian immigrants and weave together a family history that will take him from the war-torn country of his parents’ youth to a brighter vision of his life in America today. In so doing, he crafts a story- real or invented-that holds the possibility of reconciliation and redemption.

    About How to Read the Air

    A "beautifully written"* (New York Times Book Review) novel of redemption by a prize-winning international literary star.

    From the acclaimed author of The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears comes a heartbreaking literary masterwork about love, family, and the power of imagination.

    Following the death of his father Yosef, Jonas Woldemariam feels compelled to make sense of the volatile generational and cultural ties that have forged him. Leaving behind his marriage and job in New York, he sets out to retrace his mother and father’s honeymoon as young Ethiopian immigrants and weave together a family history that will take him from the war-torn country of his parents’ youth to a brighter vision of his life in America today. In so doing, he crafts a story- real or invented-that holds the possibility of reconciliation and redemption.

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    About Dinaw Mengestu

    Dinaw Mengestu is the award-winning author of two previous novels, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007) and How to Read the Air (2010). He is a graduate of Georgetown University and of Columbia University’s M.F.A. program in fiction and… More about Dinaw Mengestu

    About Dinaw Mengestu

    Dinaw Mengestu is the award-winning author of two previous novels, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007) and How to Read the Air (2010). He is a graduate of Georgetown University and of Columbia University’s M.F.A. program in fiction and… More about Dinaw Mengestu

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Riverhead Books
    Oct 04, 2011 | 320 Pages | 5-1/8 x 8 | ISBN 9781594485398

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Riverhead Books
    Oct 14, 2010 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9781101444351

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