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Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Born in Addis Ababa and now living in Paris, Dinaw Mengestu returns to a Seattle that was one of the first cities to embrace his award-winning debut novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. From a well-attended reading at Elliott Bay early in the book's life to its choice as a Seattle Reads selection by The Seattle Public Library, Seattle readers chorused this book's praises, as did The Guardian (Guardian First Book Prize), the Los Angeles Times (Art Seidenbaum Award), and others. He was also a recent "20 Under 40" selection of The New Yorker. All of this is prelude for his being here tonight—with a luminous new novel, How to Read the Air (Riverhead). "Mengestu stunningly illustrates the immigrant experience across two generations ... Mengestu draws a haunting psychological portrait of recent immigrants to America, insecure and alienated, striving to fit in while mourning the loss of their cultural heritage and social status. Mengestu's precise and nuanced prose evokes characters, scenes, and emotions with an invigorating and unparalleled clarity." - Publishers Weekly. Free admission is on a first-come, first serve basis. Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison & Spring). For more information, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, The Seattle Public Library at (206) 386-4636, or see www.spl.org.
