# The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

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- Book: [The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears](https://www.bookquiver.com/dinaw-mengestu/the-beautiful-things-that-heaven-bears) ([The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dinaw-mengestu/the-beautiful-things-that-heaven-bears.md))
- Authors: [Dinaw Mengestu](https://www.bookquiver.com/dinaw-mengestu)
- Publisher: Riverhead Books
- ISBN: 978-15-9448-285-4
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2008-02-05
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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,...