Mengestu, Dinaw, 1978-

How to read the air / Dinaw Mengestu. - New York : Riverhead Books, 2010. - 305 p. ; 22 cm.

Leaving behind his marriage and job in New York, Jonas, the son of E thiopian immigrants, sets out to retrace his mother and father's trip a nd 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.

9780099521037


Children of immigrants-- Fiction.
Ethiopians--United States-- Fiction.

813.6