Book
Someone like us
Audience Adults
Published 2024 by Alfred A. Knopf, New York
ISBN 9780385350006
Bib Id 1457262
Copyright 2024
Edition First edition.
Description 251 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
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cam a22 i 4500
LCCN
2023031843
ISBN
9780385350006 (hardcover) $28.00
0385350007
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FIC Mengestu
Title
Someone like us
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
2024 by Alfred A. Knopf, New York :
Copyright Date
©2024
Description
251 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Note
"This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso.
Summary
"After abandoning his once-promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush meets Hannah--a photographer whose way of seeing the world shows him the possibility of finding not only love but family. Now, five years later, with his marriage to Hannah on the verge of collapse, he returns to the close-knit immigrant Ethiopian community of Washington, DC, that defined his childhood. At its center is Mamush's stoic, implacable mother, and Samuel, the larger-than-life father figure whose ceaseless charm and humor have always served as a cover for a harder, more troubling truth. But on the same day that Mamush arrives home in Washington, Samuel is found dead in his garage. With Hannah and their two-year-old son back in Paris, Mamush sets out on an unexpected journey across America in search of answers to questions he'd been told never to ask. As he does so, he begins to understand that perhaps the only chance he has of saving his family and making it back home is to confront not only the unresolved mystery around Samuel's life and death, but his own troubled memories, and the years spent masking them. Breathtaking, commanding, unforgettable work from one of America's most prodigiously gifted novelists"--
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Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels
Psychological fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels
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