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The Leonard Lopate Show / September 17, 2007 / Held at a Distance

Held at a Distance

Monday, September 17, 2007

In 1976, Rebecca Haile's family fled political unrest in Ethiopia and began new lives in Minnesota. Twenty-five years later, Haile and her husband traveled back to the country of her birth. Her memoir offers a moving account on her family's journey, the process of becoming American, and what it meant to her to go back home.

Purchase Held at a Distance: My Rediscovery of Ethiopia at amazon.com.


Event: Rebecca Haile will be reading and signing books
Monday, September 17 at 7 pm
McNally Robinson Bookstore
52 Prince Street, at Mulberry Street


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