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HOW TO READ AIR by Dinaw Mengestu
If there’s one useful outcome that has come out of Jonas Woldermariam’s trying childhood, it is this: Jonas has become an expert at varnishing the truth. This ability to embellish facts comes in especially handy at Jonas’s first job. He works at a law firm that helps newly arrived immigrants with the asylum process. Jonas’s job is to help the immigrants with their essays and edit them for structure and grammar. But Jonas can’t help adding some spice to their stories…
October 28, 2010
Tags: Ethiopia, Family Matters, Literary Posted in: Award Winning Author, Family Matters, Identity, Immigration / Diaspora, Literary, Reading Guide, World Literature 
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