The beautiful things that heaven bears, Dinaw Mengestu
Type
Label
The beautiful things that heaven bears, Dinaw Mengestu
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The beautiful things that heaven bears
Oclc number
70831026
Responsibility statement
Dinaw Mengestu
Summary
It's the '70s, and one impoverished, African-American Washington, D.C. neighborhood is undergoing big changes. In the mix is Ethiopian grocery owner Sepha Stephanos--a man with a complex past who fled his homeland after seeing his father brutalized and beaten to death in the Ethiopian Revolution, 17 years earlier. Eventually, he begins to assemble a group of people who resemble a community, but once again his "family" is threatened, this time by a series of racially charged incidents