This is the second of my (at least!) ten African authors in this year’s Cannonball.  I picked this up based mostly on the title and the fact that I hadn’t read anything by an Ethiopian author yet.  But this book is not about Ethiopia, really–it’s about being an Ethiopian in America or, more specifically, one hapless immigrant’s experience. The story is told in first person by the main character, Sepha Stephanos, who fled Ethiopia after the revolution seventeen years previously.  He met up with an uncle in Virginia and eventually opened a small grocery store in pre-gentrification Logan Circle in […]