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Soon Sepha's neighborhood begins to change. Hope comes in the form of new neighbors--Judith and Naomi, a white woman and her biracial daughter--who become his friends and remind him of what having a family is like for the first time in years. But when the neighborhood's newfound calm is disturbed by a series of racial incidents, Sepha may lose everything all over again.

Told in a haunting and powerful first-person narration that casts the streets of Washington, D.C., and Addis Ababa through Sepha's eyes, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears is a deeply affecting and unforgettable debut novel about what it means to lose a family and a country--and what it takes to create a new home.]]> 135726 3.52 1363 354 2007 3 0 false Tue Oct 27 13:07:28 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 11:40:12 -0800 2009