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Maaza Mengiste
Maaza Mengiste (born 1974) is an Ethiopian-American writer and author of the 2010 novel "Beneath the Lion's Gaze".
Early life.
Mengiste was born in 1974 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but left at the age of four when her family fled the Ethiopian Revolution. She spent the rest of her childhood in Nigeria, Kenya, and the United States. She later studied in Italy as a Fulbright Scholar and earned an MFA degree in creative writing from New York University.
The Memory of Love
The Memory of Love is a 2010 novel by Aminatta Forna about the experiences of three men in Sierra Leone.
Reception.
Maaza Mengiste reviewing "The Memory of Love" "gives us a stronger, more nuanced voice, a writer more willing to take risks with plot and character. The results of that risk-taking are, however, mixed." and concluded "at the core of this novel is the brave and beating heart, at once vulnerable and determined, unwilling to let