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A haunting debut by a gifted young Ethiopian-American author, describing one man's longing for the American dream, and of the tenacious grip of the past across continents and time. 'A quietly brilliant portrait of immigrant life...' "Financial Times"
Synopsis
Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed his father's life, Stepha Stephanos is a man still caught between two existences: the one he left behind, aged nineteen, and the new life he has forged in Washington D C Sepha spends his days in a sort of limbo.