Maaza Mengiste, a Pushcart Prize nominee, was named 'New Literary Idol' by New York Magazine. Her work has appeared in the Baltimore Review and Ninth Letter, and has been translated and published into German and Romanian for Lettre International.
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'A brilliant novel, lyrically lifting history towards myth. It's also compulsively readable. I devoured it in two days.' ? Salman Rushdie In 1935, orphaned servant Hirut struggles to adapt to her new household as Ethiopia faces Mussolini's looming invasio... SEE MORE