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How to Read the Air

How to Read the Air


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On an early September afternoon Yosef and Mariam Getachew, a young couple who have spent all but the first year of their marriage apart, set off on a road trip from their new home in Peoria, Illinois to Nashville, Tennessee. The trip is a second-rate version of an American honeymoon, and ultimately a futile attempt to bring them closer together after three years apart. As soon as the trip begins it is ruined by a small act of violence that becomes the defining trait of not only their trip through the Midwest and South but also their marriage. While the story of Mariam and Yosef s lives and marriage initially appears to be told by a third-person narrator, it is in fact being recreated and deliberately imagined by their son, Jona. Born six months after their drive to Nashville, Jona is actively inventing his parents journey thirty years later, after both have died. Their story begins in Peoria but reaches back to the first days of their relationship in Ethiopia and includes the tumultuous (and in Yosef s case) violent years the couple spent living apartJona begins to cobble together his parents fragmented lives, each imagined scene shedding light on who they may have been before

About the Author :
Dinaw Mengestu was born in Ethiopia in 1978 and is a graduate of Georgetown and Columbia universities. His 2007 debut novel, Children of the Revolution, won the Guardian First Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2010, he was included in the New Yorker's '20 Under 40' list of writers to watch.

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the 32-year-old's talent continues to shine in this second novel a straight-forward, compassionate, keenly sensitive observer of real life How to read the air is deeply thought out, deliberate in its craftsmanship and in many parts beautifully written...remarkably talented


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780224084710
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Height: 223 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Weight: 475 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0224084712
  • Publisher Date: 30 Dec 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Width: 144 mm


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