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Tag: Dinaw Mengestu
10 under rated books
January 17, 2017
Which books deserve more attention? Here are 10 suggestions for ones to take a closer look at
All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
September 6, 2015
In All Our Names, Dinaw Mengestu examines two familiar pillars of love and conflict but surrounds them with an exploration of a third, equally powerful, theme of identity. Set some time in the 1970s, All Our Names is told via two narrators. One is Helen, a young, white social worker with the Lutheran Relief Services […]
Surely I’ve read more??
December 21, 2014
It seems I have been operating under an illusion for the past few months. If you’d asked me one thing about my reading habit this year, I would have said that I read more of the current year’s new titles than ever before. I didn’t set out with a plan to read the new works […]