Someone Like Us

Name: Someone Like Us
Author: Dinaw Mengestu

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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.

More by Dinaw Mengestu

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