Meron Hadero

A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

WINNER OF THE HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN DIASPORA AFRICAN LITERARY AWARD 2023 FINALIST FOR THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION 2023 FINALIST FOR THE CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE 2023 'Witty and wistful, complex and heartbreaking' Brit Bennett An enterprising young man on the verge of losing his home in Addis Ababa pursues an improbable opportunity to turn his life around. A woman visiting her country of origin for the first time finds that an ordinary object opens up an unexpected, complex bridge between worlds. An intergenerational friendship forms between two refugees living in Iowa who have connections to Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Kaleidoscopic, powerful and illuminative, the stories in A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times expand our understanding of the essential and universal need for connection and the vital refuge of home.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781838858926
• Artikelnr.: 63675394

Autorenporträt

Meron Hadero is an Ethiopian American who was born in Addis Ababa and came to the U.S. via Germany as a young child. Meron's short stories have won the 2021 Caine Prize for African Writing, shortlisted for the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing, and appear in Best American Short Stories, Ploughshares, McSweeney¿s Quarterly Concern, Zyzzyva, The Iowa Review, Missouri Review, 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology, and others. She's also been published in The New York Times Book Review, the anthology The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, and will appear in the forthcoming anthology Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us. A 2019-2020 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University, and a fellow at Yaddo, Ragdale, and MacDowell, Meron holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan, a JD from Yale Law School (Washington State Bar), and a BA in history from Princeton with a certificate in American studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Suitcase
2. The Wall
3. The Street Sweep
4. Mekonnen aka Mack aka Huey Freakin' Newton
5. Kind Stranger
6. Medallion
7. The Thief's Tale
8. The Life and Times of the Little Manuscript and Anonymous
9. Sinkholes
10. The Drought That Drowned Us
11. The Case of the Missing Prime Minister
12. The Elders
13. A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times
14. Preludes
15. Swearing In, January 20, 2009

Rezensionen

These stories capture lives caught between cultures and continents, past and present, truth and lies. As its displaced characters seek belonging, this collection explores the challenges of connection with empathy and nuance. A thrilling debut BRIT BENNETT