East Africa
Ethiopia
Contemporary
English
Fiction
Sepha Stephanos, a refugee from Ethiopia who fled a military coup, runs a failing grocery store in a gentrifying Washington D.C. neighborhood. A quiet, devastating novel about displacement and belonging.
Literary Significance
Mengestu's debut; Guardian First Book Award; one of the defining novels of the Ethiopian diaspora experience
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editorial-summarynot primary textSepha Stephanos, a refugee from Ethiopia who fled a military coup, runs a failing grocery store in a gentrifying Washington D.C. neighborhood. A quiet, devastating novel about displacement and belonging. Mengestu's debut; Guardian First Book Award; one of the defining novels of the Ethiopian diaspora experience
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