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A Mesmerizing, Indelible Coming-of-age Story About A Girl In Boston's Tightly-knit Ethiopian Community Who Falls Under The Spell Of A Charismatic Hustler Out To Change The World A Haunting Story Of Fatherhood, National Identity, And What It Means To Be An Immigrant In America Today, Nafkote Tamirat's The Parking Lot Attendant Explores How Who We Love, The Choices We Make, And The Places We're From Combine To Make Us Who We Are. The Story Begins On An Undisclosed Island Where The Unnamed Narrator And Her Father Are The Two Newest And Least Liked Members Of A Commune That Has Taken Up Residence There. Though The Commune Was Built On Utopian Principles, It Quickly Becomes Clear That Life Here Is Not As Harmonious As The Founders Intended. After Immersing Us In Life On The Island, Our Young Heroine Takes Us Back To Boston To Recount The Events That Brought Her Here. Though She And Her Father Belong To A Wide Ethiopian Network In The City, They Mostly Keep To Themselves, Which Is How Her Father Prefers It. This Detached Existence Only Makes Ayale's Arrival On The Scene More Intoxicating. The Unofficial King Of Boston's Ethiopian Community, Ayale Is A Born Hustler--when He Turns His Atte

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Author

Tamirat, Nafkote, author

Publisher

New York: Henry Holt and Company

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250128508

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.7 / 5 (99 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14