Held at a distance
Subtitle: an Ethiopian journey
By: Rebecca G. Haile.
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780897335560
Subjects: Haile, Rebecca G., -- 1965- -- Travel; Haile, Rebecca G., -- 1965- -- Biography; Ethiopian Americans -- Biography; African Americans -- Relations with Africans; Ethiopia -- Description and travel; Ethiopia -- Social conditions -- 1974-
Genres: Biography.
Description: Haile's memoir traces her family's emigration from Ethiopia to the United States in the mid-1970s, a journey that led to her return 25 years later. The author's father was an academic who served in the Ethiopian parliament after the coup that toppled Emperor Haile Selassie. However, he was persecuted under the new regime, which forced him and his family (Haile was 11 years old at the time) to flee to the United States and eventually to central Minnesota. The book is chiefly about Haile's return to Ethiopia, as she attempts to reconcile and process the harsh realities and issues that still plague the country and her relatives who continue to live there.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.