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Across four fine novels, Dinaw Mengestu has challenged conventional wisdom about how immigrant narratives ought to work. It’s not just that he’s skeptical of pat yarns about trauma and assimilating ...

Three paragraphs into his wise and genial novel, “Someone Like Us,” Dinaw Mengestu drops a grenade that sits, smoldering, in the story; we almost forget it as the author toggles through a span of four ...

The Ethiopian American novelist also talks aesthetics and the inspiration behind his most recent novel, “Someone Like Us.” By Anderson Tepper The novelist Dinaw Mengestu thinks deeply about how ...

In this week's Endnotes, we take a look at Someone Like Us (July, Knopf) by Dinaw Mengestu. In a starred review, PW called the novel "beautiful," adding that "Mengestu’s tremendous talents are on full ...