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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

Dinaw Mengestu

Watch a QuickTime interview with Dinaw Mengestu about this book. Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a poor African-American section of Washington, D.C., his only companions...

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The 2007 debut novel by Mengestu was referenced as the author's earlier work that gave him a strong voice for immigrant narratives.

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2007 debut novel The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears he's given voice to characters engulfed in their own solitude.

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The 2007 debut novel by Mengestu was referenced as the author's earlier work that gave him a strong voice for immigrant narratives.

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2007 debut novel The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears he's given voice to characters engulfed in their own solitude.

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