How to Read the Air

A "beautifully written"* (New York Times Book Review) novel of redemption by a prize-winning international literary star.

From the acclaimed author of The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears comes a heartbreaking literary masterwork about love, family, and the power of imagination.

Following the death of his father Yosef, Jonas Woldemariam feels compelled to make sense of the volatile generational and cultural ties that have forged him. Leaving behind his marriage and job in New York, he sets out to retrace his mother and father's honeymoon as young Ethiopian immigrants and weave together a family history that will take him from the war-torn country of his parents' youth to a brighter vision of his life in America today. In so doing, he crafts a story- real or invented-that holds the possibility of reconciliation and redemption.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 10/04/2011
ISBN: 9781594485398
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 11/20/2011 pg. 32