Author Description

This lush debut novel from Ethiopian writer, Fasil Yitbarek, takes us on a fascinating journey with Yosef, a newly arrived immigrant to New York City, as he struggles to make sense of two sharply contrasting cultures. It is a captivating account of Yosef's quest to find his place away from home while carving a career as an English teacher. By seamlessly interlacing the realities of the main character's adopted home with those of his birthplace, the author has consstructed a beautiful tapestry, alive with haunting images. Yitbarek's style is elegant, rich with marvelous prose that brings the settings and events of the novel to life with striking immedicacy. The Texture of Dreams is a novel to gratify the soul and the senses.