Someone Like Us

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 | A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2024 | A BOOKPAGE BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2024

Dinaw Mengestu's spellbinding new novel crafts a powerful narrative about race and class and immigration and exile around a transfixing question: How well can we ever know those we love?

After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush meets Hannah—a photographer whose way of seeing the world shows him the possibility of finding not only love, but family. Now, five years later, with his marriage to Helen on the verge of collapse, he returns to the close-knit Ethiopian immigrant community of Washington DC, that defined his childhood. At its centre… Keep Reading