O Magazine's October Book Reviews
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the October 2010 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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By Dinaw Mengestu 320 pages; Riverhead "Violence had made and...unmade my world," explains Jonas Woldemariam, the son of Ethiopian immigrants, in Dinaw Mengestu's quiet and beautiful new novel, How to Read the Air. Now a high school teacher in New York, Jonas muses about his solitary midwestern childhood; ever alert to the tripwires in his father's temper and his mother's bruised silences, he has grown into a self-numbing young adult... Read more |
