Meron Hadero

A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times

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Produktbeschreibung

WINNER OF THE HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING 2024
FICTION FINALIST FOR THE WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING 2024
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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 11110
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 133mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 223g
• ISBN-13: 9781838858919
• ISBN-10: 1838858911
• Artikelnr.: 65688501

Autorenporträt

Meron Hadero is an Ethiopian-American who was born in Addis Ababa and came to the US via Germany as a young child. Meron's short stories have won the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing, and appear in Best American Short Stories, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology and others. She was a contributor to The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Live and has been published in the New York Times. A 2019-2020 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University, 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. @meronhadero meronhadero.com

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