Hope comes in the form of new neighbors-Judith and Naomi, a white woman and her biracial daughter-who become his friends and remind him of what having a family is like for the first time in years. Soon Sepha's neighborhood begins to change. He realizes that his life has turned out completely different and far more isolated from the one he had imagined for himself years ago. His only companions are two fellow African immigrants who share his feelings of frustration with and bitter nostalgia for their home continent. Now he finds himself running a grocery store in a poor African-American neighborhood in Washington, D.C. Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution after witnessing soldiers beat his father to the point of certain death, selling off his parents' jewelry to pay for passage to the United States. Published as The Beautiful Thing That Heaven Bears in the USA, Canada and Australia and as Children of the Revolution in the UK. and Addis Ababa through the eyes of Sepha who, seventeen years ago, fled Ethiopia during the Revolution, and now runs a failing convenience store in a poor African-American neighborhood in Washington. A haunting and powerful first novel that views the streets of Washington, D.C.
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