Description
A marriage in New York begins to unravel for Jonas as his relationship with Angela fractures under the weight of memory and silence. Forced to retrace the path his parents—Yosef and Miriam—took when they emigrated from Ethiopia to the United States, Jonas follows three interwoven threads: the story of their first dislocation, a disastrous road trip that shaped his family, and his own later attempt to reenact that journey decades afterward. With lyrical precision and a deeply human focus, the novel explores love and betrayal, inherited trauma, and the ways imagination can both preserve and distort the past. Blending intimate realism with a quietly propulsive structure, Dinaw Mengestu delivers a heartbreaking, resonant meditation on identity, belonging, and what it means to be “American” from the inside out.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2019
339 pages
ISBN: 9781448137114
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First Published
2010
Language
eng
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