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How To Read The Air (2010)

by Dinaw Mengestu(Favorite Author)

3.13 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1594487707 (ISBN13: 9781594487705)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Riverhead Hardcover

review 1: Emma Komlos-Hrobsky (Assistant Editor, Tin House Magazine): This Friday, I find myself in that delectable liminal space between books. After work, I get to go home and muss through the five stacks of books next to my bed in search of this weekend’s reading. Where to begin? Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams, barely pried from the hands of a friend who wanted but didn’t want to lend it? Dinaw Mengestu’s How to Read the Air, passed along by another? On Deception, gifted by me to my dad and then sneakily borrowed back, a collection of Houdini’s writings about the con of magic and the magic of the con? My Kind of Place, the Susan Orlean travel anthology I found at long last summer at Powell’s and then loaned to my mom, and which has finally orbited my way again? An... mored what about the fact that I’ve never read Wuthering Heights? With this kind of abundance of good writing in the world, the project of picking is nearly as nice as reading.
review 2: It was hard to review this book as it was hard to read it. The book seemed to have no plot and was relying on bland character's to lead the story. Jonas told the story of his immigrants parents dysfunctional marriage while his own marriage was falling apart. The climax of the book which leads to his parents marriage taking a definitive turn for the worse is disappointing. Overall a boring rambling read. less

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