The New Yorker excerpts Dinaw Mengestu’s forthcoming novel How to Read the Air

In this week’s issue of The New Yorker, read an excerpt from Dinaw Mengestu’s How to Read the Air, the highly anticipated second novel from the acclaimed and prize-winning author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. Mengestu, along with Riverhead author Salvatore Scibona, was listed in The New Yorker's "20 Under 40" list of fiction writers to watch. How to Read the Air is forthcoming from Riverhead Books in October. More…