I Hope You Find What You're Looking For: A Novel by Bsrat Mezghebe
The narrator of the book sounded like a Nigerian (actually an American of Nigerian ancestry), yet the book was primarily about the Eritrean fight for independence. This is like having a German narration for a book on Britain. Sure, they might live relatively close, but they don't sound at all alike. This book primarily deals with a woman and her quest for identity and family and how that related to the fight for Eritrean independence and the lives of African immigrants in the US. There are seeds of an interesting story, that just couldn't surmount the wrong voice.
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