Author Dinaw Mengestu, Reading and Talk
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 6:00 PM EDT
Center for the Arts, Grand Tier III
Dinaw Mengestu is an Ethopian-American writer, and his novel “The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears,” is this year’s choice for the English Department’s Text and Community program. The novel tells the story of three African immigrants living in Washington D.C, after fleeing the Ethiopian Revolution seventeen years earlier. Mengestu won The Gaurdian’s First Book Award for the novel, and the novel was named one of the New York Times Notable Books of 2007. His second novel, “How to Read the Air,” was published in 2010. Mengestu has also written for Rolling Stone, reporting on the war in Darfur, and his other work as also appeared in Harper’s, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications. His newest book “All Our Names,” was just published in March.
