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How to Read the Air

by Dinaw Mengestu
Corey Allen
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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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Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781461807049
  • File size: 268108 KB
  • Release date: October 8, 2010
  • Duration: 09:18:33

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  • ISBN: 9781461807049
  • File size: 268148 KB
  • Release date: October 8, 2010
  • Duration: 09:18:29
  • Number of parts: 8
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Fiction Literature

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English

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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Fiction Literature