How to Read the Air

Name: How to Read the Air
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Dinaw Mengestu
ISBN: 9781449839802

Author: Dinaw Mengestu

Narrator: Corey Allen

Unabridged: 9 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/14/2010

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

African-born author Dinaw Mengestu's prose is praised as "heart-rending and indelible" (Publishers Weekly), and his debut novel The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears was a New York Times Notable Book. In How to Read the Air, Mengestu crafts a moving tale about one man's search for identity. After his estranged Ethiopian immigrant father dies, Jonas hopes to answer questions about his heritage and culture. So he leaves his wife and home in New York and sets out across the trail his own parents took when they first arrived in America.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Zsa Zsa

One thing to take away from this book is being an immigrant parent is a tasking project, so don’t do it :)) It’s a distorted story of a story within a story of a son of two immigrants while he tries to discover himself by going back to a specific point in time in the life of his parents before he was......more

Goodreads review by Ron

The eerie calm in Dinaw Mengestu's new novel, "How to Read the Air," is almost never broken. There are flashes of violence -- a black eye, a broken lamp -- but those strikes interrupt an atmosphere of smothered despair. Named one of the New Yorker's best 20 writers under 40, Mengestu earned high pra......more