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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu

January 26, 2022 by storiaallineare 5 Comments

First review ever and a confession! As a recovering humanities graduate student, I’m using CB14 as a way to re-teach myself how to read for pleasure, though that phase sits uncomfortably with me. I’m not sure ‘reading for pleasure’ really covers the full scope of what reading used to do for me and what I hope it will do in the future. The feeling of pleasure doesn’t capture at all what I experienced after finishing Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, and that […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Dinaw Mengestu, Fiction, gentrification, immigrant experience

storiaallineare's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Dinaw Mengestu, Fiction, gentrification, immigrant experience ·
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So unmemorable I forgot I read it

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu

November 1, 2019 by lowercasesee 2 Comments

This book is honestly so blah I kind of forgot I read it (not 100% the book’s fault, we pulled off a frankly spectacular wedding last weekend so I’ve been a little distracted) (did y’all catch that? WE GOT MARRIED AND IT WAS PERFECT OMG) I felt like I should have been fascinated by this book, but it just didn’t grab me. The whole book just kind of floated by. Our narrator is Sepha Stephanos, living in Washington, D.C., after fleeing the Ethopian Revolution as a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Dinaw Mengestu

lowercasesee's CBR11 Review No:93 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Dinaw Mengestu ·
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