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Name: How to read the air
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Author: Dinaw Mengestu

Leaving behind his marriage and job in New York, Jonas, the son of Ethiopian immigrants, sets out to retrace his mother and father's trip and weave together a family history that will take him from the war-torn Ethiopia of his parents' youth to his life in the America of today.

First publish date: 2010

Authors: Dinaw Mengestu

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