Title: Held at a Distance: My Rediscovery of Ethiopia
Author: Rebecca G. Haile
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Year: 2007
200 pages
A better book than it's getting credit for being. Part history, part family history, part travelogue, this is an elegant piece of work that speaks not only to what might cause a family to need to flee their homeland, but what it's like to come back. Haile balances the legacy of her family with the strange experience of being an expatriate tourist in her own land.
It was also fun to see Amharic words that are from the same Semitic roots as Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic.
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