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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Dinaw Mengestu
Riverhead
March 2007
On Sale: March 1, 2007
Featuring: Sepha Stephanos
240 pages
ISBN: 1594489408
EAN: 9781594489402
Hardcover
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Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian
Revolution after witnessing soldiers beat his father to the
point of certain death, selling off his parents' jewelry to
pay for passage to the United States. Now he finds himself
running a grocery store in a poor African-American
neighborhood in Washington, D.C. His only companions are two
fellow African immigrants who share his feelings of
frustration with and bitter nostalgia for their home
continent. He realizes that his life has turned out
completely different and far more isolated from the one he
had imagined for himself years ago. Soon Sepha's neighborhood begins to change. Hope comes in
the form of new neighbors-Judith and Naomi, a white woman
and her biracial daughter-who become his friends and remind
him of what having a family is like for the first time in
years. But when the neighborhood's newfound calm is
disturbed by a series of racial incidents, Sepha may lose
everything all over again. Told in a haunting and powerful first-person narration that
casts the streets of Washington, D.C., and Addis Ababa
through Sepha's eyes, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
is a deeply affecting and unforgettable debut novel about
what it means to lose a family and a country-and what it
takes to create a new home.
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