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Ethiopian-born author Dinaw Mengestu reads an excerpt from his novel, "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears."

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Dinaw Mengestu talks about "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears."

Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, and immigrated to the US in 1980. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and of Columbia Univesity's MFA program in fiction. A former intern at The New Yorker, he is the recipient of a 2006 fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts.