The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears

This is a magnificently simple book. Deceptively simple, like the Old Man and the Sea, in that you breeze through it and think "nice story" but when you pause for one moment and think about it, you realize that it is so much more than a nice story. A blend of the political uncertainties and accompany......more

Big disappointment. This is all about an Ethiopian refugee who's now been in Washington DC for 17 years and runs a grocery store in a poor neighbourhood. Now the author must know whereof he speaks, but I could hardly believe the picture he painted. In 17 years, we are to understand that Sepha, our i......more

He fled the revolution In Ethiopia and came to America, To a neighborhood in Washington DC where he opened up a grocery store. This was a quiet story, or so it seemed. But it could have Ben because the narrator had a soft voice, a masculine soft voice. And this added to the beauty of the story. He was......more