Dinaw Mengestu (an Ethopian-born writer now living in the US and one of the writers selected as one of the New Yorker's "20 Under 40" writers in 2010) creates the moving, perceptive story of an African immigrant, told from two points of view. One narrator is Daniel, who knew Isaac as a young revolutionary living at university in Uganda. The other narrator is Helen, a social worker living in the US Midwest, who meets a man called Isaac, now living as an exchange student, and cannot help being drawn to him as a human being. What is justice? What is truth? What is real? Mengestu sets these larger questions against the backdrop of a powerfully personal story. You can see the Monitor's full review of "All Our Names" here.
