so-soThis was more travelogue than memoir and quite a bit was pretty dry. She did talk about the revolution in the 70s-the reason the author and her family had to leave Ethiopia-and described a lot of the country. #foodandlit @Texreader @Butterfinger
"I had come to a point in my life where I wanted to see and experience the country I remembered, to test my childhood memories against the modern reality."
???Reading Rebecca Haile's memoir as part of the research for the next Elemental World book, whose heroine is Ethiopian-American.
Held at a Distance: My Rediscovery of Ethiopia | 
