Someone Like Us -- Dinaw Mengestu, Hardcover
Author: Dinaw Mengestu
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 07/30/2024
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
ISBN: 9780385350006
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2024 pg. 4
Publishers Weekly 05/13/2024
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2024
About the Author
DINAW MENGESTU is the author of three novels, all of which were named New York Times Notable Books: All Our Names, How to Read the Air, and The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. A native of Ethiopia who came with his family to the United States at the age of two, Mengestu is also a freelance journalist who has reported about life in Darfur, northern Uganda, and eastern Congo. His articles and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper's, Granta, Jane, and Rolling Stone. He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow and recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Prize, Guardian First Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, among other honors. He was also included in The New Yorker's 20 under 40 list in 2010.
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African American & Black, Dinaw Mengestu, Fiction, Fiction - General, Hardcover, Immigrants - United States, Knopf Publishing Group, Literary, PsychologicalContact form
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