

How to Read the Air
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
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
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
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