Someone Like Us
By Dinaw Mengestu
By Dinaw Mengestu
By Dinaw Mengestu
By Dinaw Mengestu
By Dinaw Mengestu
Read by Junior Nyong’o
By Dinaw Mengestu
Read by Junior Nyong’o
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$28.00
Jul 30, 2024 | ISBN 9780385350006
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Jul 30, 2024 | ISBN 9780385350020
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Jul 30, 2024 | ISBN 9780593907016
490 Minutes
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Praise
“A captivating novel about displacement, isolation, and oppression.” —TIME
”A moving, memorable novel . . . [Mengestu] defies standard immigrant-narrativetropes in which successes compensate for feelings of longing, displacement, and loss. But this time, it’s bleaker as Mengestu emphasizes his characters’ fears of deportation, of being pulledover by police, and their utter exhaustion as work and anxiety rob them of sleep.” —Booklist (starred review)
“Beautiful . . . Mengestu shifts fluidly between fabulism and realism, and the narrative is full of wisdom related to Samuel’s disillusionment with the American dream. Mengestu’s tremendous talents are on full display.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Mengestu expertly portrays the lives of immigrants who are never totally accepted intheir adopted country and their American-born children who muststraddle both worlds.” —Library Journal
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