RAINBOW EDITION: "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears" by Dinaw Mengestu

The Jersey City Lesbian & Gay Outreach's Rainbow Book Group meets inside Imagine Atrium to discuss The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu

IMPORTANT: To sign up for this meeting, please visit the book group's Web site at www.jclgo.org

About the book:

A literary debut hailed by the New York Times Book Review as a great American novel. Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a poor African-American section of Washington, D.C., his only companions two fellow African immigrants who share his bitter nostalgia and longing for his home continent. Years ago and worlds away Sepha could never have imagined a life of such isolation. As his environment begins to change, hope comes in the form of a friendship with new neighbors Judith and Naomi, a white woman and her biracial daughter. But when a series of racial incidents disturbs the community, Sepha may lose everything all over again.