The beautiful things that heaven bears

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Label

The beautiful things that heaven bears

Statement of responsibility

Dinaw Mengestu

Creator

• trueMengestu, Dinaw, 1978-

Subject

• trueConvenience stores
• trueEthiopia -- History -- Revolution, 1974
• trueEthiopians
• Ethiopians
• Ethiopians -- United States -- Fiction
• trueEuropean American women
• trueFathers -- Death
• Fiction
• trueFriendship
• trueHome (Concept)
• trueHomesickness
• trueImmigrants -- Washington, D.C
• trueImmigration and emigration
• trueLoss (Psychology)
• trueMale friendship
• trueMothers and daughters
• trueRefugees -- United States
• United States
• Washington (D.C.)
• Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction
• trueWashington, D.C
• Éthiopiens -- États-Unis -- Romans
• trueMultiracial girls
• truePrejudice
• trueRace relations
• Race relations -- Fiction
• trueRacism

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

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

Storyline

• trueOwn voices

Character

• trueCulturally diverse

Award

• Guardian First Book Award, 2007.
• Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2007.
• New York Times Notable Book, 2007

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction