A Year in Reading: Jennifer Croft
has a new novel out this year called , but I took a while in the spring to read her first book, , which is easily one of the best novels I’ve ever read. Its spirited prose, its pulsing life force, tells the story of how Ethiopian emperor ’s fall in 1975 made way for a brutal military junta, and Mengiste is rightly merciless in her accounts of betrayal, murder, torture, and rape. Everyone should read this book.
