Dinaw Mengestu: 'How to Read the Air'

Published: Oct. 25, 2010, 5:30 p.m.

"How to Read the Air" tells a powerful, unsettling story of family and identity in two generations of an Ethiopian American family. "How to Read the Air" follows Mengestu's acclaimed, multiple-award-winning debut, "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears," featured in The Seattle Public Library's 2008 Seattle Reads series.