Someone like us / Dinaw Mengestu.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Mengestu, Dinaw, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.
• Immigrants--United States--Fiction.
• Ethiopian Americans--Genealogy--Fiction.
• Journalists--Fiction.
• Family secrets--Fiction.
• Fathers--Death--Fiction.
• American Dream--Fiction.
• Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.

Genre:

• Novels
• Domestic fiction.
• Psychological fiction.
• Detective and mystery fiction.
• Novels.
• Mystery fiction.

Physical Description:

251 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.

Summary:

"After abandoning his once-promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush meets Hannah--a photographer whose way of seeing the world shows him the possibility of finding not only love but family. Now, five years later, with his marriage to Hannah on the verge of collapse, he returns to the close-knit immigrant Ethiopian community of Washington, DC, that defined his childhood. At its center is Mamush's stoic, implacable mother, and Samuel, the larger-than-life father figure whose ceaseless charm and humor have always served as a cover for a harder, more troubling truth. But on the same day that Mamush arrives home in Washington, Samuel is found dead in his garage. With Hannah and their two-year-old son back in Paris, Mamush sets out on an unexpected journey across America in search of answers to questions he'd been told never to ask. As he does so, he begins to understand that perhaps the only chance he has of saving his family and making it back home is to confront not only the unresolved mystery around Samuel's life and death, but his own troubled memories, and the years spent masking them. Breathtaking, commanding, unforgettable work from one of America's most prodigiously gifted novelists"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version: Mengestu, Dinaw, 1978- Someone like us

ISBN:

• 9780385350006
• 0385350007

OCLC:

1394118300