Elizabeth Floyd Mair profiles Dinaw Mengestu (who visits us on Thursday) in the Times Union.
Q: How did the idea for this book come to you? Did you need to do any mapping out in advance of what would happen?
A: I began this novel while finishing my second book. It started off with a simple image/idea — a group of young friends on a college campus somewhere in Africa just after independence. I thought the story would remain there, and since I had no plan, or map for it, I had to work out the rest of the narrative slowly over the several years.
More in the Times Union: http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/From-Africa-to-America-5294425.php
More about Mengestu's visit: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/mengestu_dinaw14.html
Monday, March 10, 2014
From Africa to America: Dinaw Mengestu
