Children of the Revolution

Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed her father’s life, Sepha Stephanos is a man still caught between two existences: the one he left behind aged nineteen, and the new life he has forged in Washington DC. Sepha spends his days in a sort of limbo: quietly running his grocery store into the ground, revisiting the Russian classics, and toasting the old days with his friends Kenneth and Joseph, themselves immigrants from Africa. But when a white woman named Judith moves next door with her only daughter Naomi, Sepha’s life seems on the verge of change…

Author:Dinaw Mengestu

ISBN:978-0-099-50273-9