The Next Chapter Book Discussion Club: Friends & Family

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Book Talk

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Adults
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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu

Ethiopian shopkeeper Sepha Stephanos chronicles his life in the rapidly gentrifying Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Logan Circle and his path there from war-torn Ethiopia as a young man in the 1970s. The story is about the pain of exile, a changing neighborhood an friendships forged and lost.

This title is available as an audiobook and ebook on hoopla and Libby.