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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Tamirat, Nafkote.     Subjects     Ethiopians -- United States -- Fiction.     Immigrant families -- Fiction.     Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.     Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction.     Communal living -- Fiction.     Cults -- Fiction.     Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Tamirat, Nafkote.       by title:      The parking lot atte...       by call number:      FICTION TAM     Search the Web     Tamirat, Nafkote.     Ethiopians -- United States -- Fiction.     Immigrant families -- Fiction.     Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.     Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction.     Communal living -- Fiction.     Cults -- Fiction.     Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The parking lot attendant : a novel / Nafkote Tamirat. by Tamirat, Nafkote. Henry Holt and Company, 2018. Call #: FICTION TAM Subjects Ethiopians -- United States -- Fiction.   Immigrant families -- Fiction.   Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.   Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction.   Communal living -- Fiction.   Cults -- Fiction.   Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781250128508 (hc.) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  225 p. ; 22 cm. Summary:  "A coming-of-age story about a girl in Boston's tightly-knit Ethiopian community who falls under the spell of a charismatic hustler out to change the world; a haunting story of fatherhood, national identity, and what it means to be an immigrant in America today. The story begins on an undisclosed island where the unnamed narrator and her father are the two newest and least liked members of a commune that has taken up residence there. Though the commune was built on utopian principles, it quickly becomes clear that life here is not as harmonious as the founders intended. After immersing us in life on the island, our young heroine takes us back to Boston to recount the events that brought her here. Though she and her father belong to a wide Ethiopian network in the city, they mostly keep to themselves, which is how her father prefers it. This detached existence only makes Ayale's arrival on the scene more intoxicating. The unofficial king of Boston's Ethiopian community, Ayale is a born hustler-- when he turns his attention to the narrator, she feels seen for the first time. Ostensibly a parking lot attendant, Ayale soon proves to have other projects in the works, which the narrator becomes more and more entangled in to her father's growing dismay. By the time the scope of Ayale's schemes-- and their repercussions-- become apparent, our narrator has unwittingly become complicit in something much bigger and darker than she ever imagined."--From publisher. Genre:  Bildungsromans Black fiction. Literary fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION TAM Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Bedford Public Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION TAM Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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