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He held up his suitcase. "I've never had much to leave behind," he said.

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.

There is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.

In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives.

Reality had settled in, and they're both still waiting to recover.

She always thought Americans were too territorial. 'All those fences and flags,' she had once said, seeing very little difference between the two.

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

I wanted to ask him if that was part of the plan, but I knew he would have said yes. The plan was to make war; anything that followed was part of it.

Ghosts are common to the life of any child:mine just happened to come to dinner more often than most

I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried.

We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.