Dinaw Mengestu
Ethiopian-American novelist whose debut The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears explores Ethiopian exile and displacement in Washington D.C. His fiction explores the immigrant experience with quiet moral intensity. He is one of the most admired African-American novelists of his generation.
Works
- The Beautiful Things That Heaven BearsEthiopian immigrant shopkeeper's loneliness and connection in Washington D.C.
- How to Read the AirSon and father reconcile through misinterpreted Ethiopian landscapes and memory
- All Our NamesCollege romantics separated by continent navigate identity, love, and displacement
- Someone Like Us