Dinaw Mengestu (Get this book)What's in a name? Identity of a kind, perhaps, but nothing like stability, and perhaps nothing like truth. So Mengestu ponders in this elegiac, moving novel, his third. Himself an immigrant, Mengestu is alert to the nuances of what transplantation and exile can do to the spirit. Certainly so, too, is his protagonist--or, better, one of two protagonists who just happen to share a name, for reasons that soon emerge. Weighted with sorrow and gravitas, another superb story by Mengestu, who is among the best novelists now at work in America. --Kirkus
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