Dinaw Mengestu: How to Read the Air October 26, 2010

Dinaw Mengestu's first novel, 'The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears' earned the young writer comparisons to Bellow, Fitzgerald, and Naipaul, and garnered ecstatic critical praise and awards around the world for its haunting depiction of the immigrant experience. Now Mengestu enriches the themes that defined his debut with a heartbreaking literary masterwork about love, family, and the power of imagination, which confirms his reputation as one of the brightest talents of his generation.