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X-WR-CALNAME:AFRICAN AMERICAN BOOK GROUP - in Silver Spring\, MD at Si
	lver Spring Library - Eventful
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SUMMARY:AFRICAN AMERICAN BOOK GROUP -
DESCRIPTION: Additional Time Info: 7:00 p.m.Event Tags: Literature & L
	ecturesSilver Spring African American Book Group Book Discussion "The 
	Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears\," by Megestu Dinaw. Copies availab
	le at the Circulation Desk. Seventeen years ago\, Sepha Stephanos fled
	 the Ethiopian Revolution after witnessing soldiers beat his father to
	 the point of certain death\, selling off his parents' jewelry to pay 
	for passage to the United States. Now he finds himself running a groce
	ry store in a poor African-American neighborhood in Washington\, D.C. 
	His only companions are two fellow African immigrants who share his fe
	elings of frustration with and bitter nostalgia for their home contine
	nt. He realizes that his life has turned out completely different and 
	far more isolated from the one he had imagined for himself years ago.S
	oon Sepha's neighborhood begins to change. Hope comes in the form of n
	ew neighbors-Judith and Naomi\, a white woman and her biracial daughte
	r-who become his friends and remind him of what having a family is lik
	e for the first time in years. But when the neighborhood's newfound ca
	lm is disturbed by a series of racial incidents\, Sepha may lose every
	thing all over again.Told in a haunting and powerful first-person narr
	ation that casts the streets of Washington\, D.C.\, and Addis Ababa th
	rough Sepha's eyes\, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears is a deepl
	y affecting and unforgettable debut novel about what it means to lose 
	a family and a country-and what it takes to create a new home.
LOCATION:Silver Spring Library @ 8901 Coleville Road, Silver Spring, M
	aryland 20910 United States
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