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Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2010 : Early on in How to Read the Air --the second novel from the author of the widely acclaimed debut, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears --Jonas Woldemariam and his soon-to-be wife Angela attend a party, where they tell casual, false stories about Angela's absent father and arrive, all of a sudden, at the fulcrum of this elegant and unusual novel. "To them," Angela notes, "it's all just one story told over and over. Change the dates and the names but it's the same." It's a theme that Dinaw Mengestu revisits as he selects the chapters from many different stories that converge in Jonas. Chief among them is Yosef and Mariam's story: they are Jonas's Ethiopian parents, estranged from each other in a violent, loveless marriage, each striving more for America's security than for its dreams. Mengestu takes common ideals of how we're supposed to live--ranging from the importance of material progress to the popular notion that there's nothing more American than road trips and country music--and investigates them quite beautifully in characters who are genuine and visionary and do, as Jonas notes, "persist, whether we care

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Author

Dinaw Mengestu; Corey Allen; Recorded Books, LLC

Publisher

Riverhead Books

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781594487705

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction