Quote by: Dinaw Mengestu

Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's the first one I can truly remember.


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Author Bio


  • NameDinaw Mengestu
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • Born1978
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist
  • AwardsMacArthur Fellows Program