How To Read The Air -

Dinaw Mengestu

Riverhead Hardcover

2010

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-10: 1594487707

The story is narrated by Jonas Woldemariam, a young Ethiopian-American whose freshly failed marriage to a woman named Angela leads him away from Manhattan. He hits the road, seeking to understand the one traversed decades ago by his parents, Yosef and Mariam, from eastern Africa to the American Midwest. Jonas unites the disconnected lives of the four characters, weaving his parents’ elusive émigré story into the certainties of his own. In alternating chapters, we see Yosef and Mariam, Jonas and Angela, as couples bearing baggage, literally and metaphorically.