Jonas, fresh from a failed marriage, is desperate to make sense of the ties that
have forged him. How can he dream of a future when he can't make sense of his p
ast? He hits the road, tracing the route that his parents - young Ethiopians in
search of an identity as an American couple - took thirty year earlier to Nashvi
lle, Tennessee. In a stunning display of imagination he weaves together a histor
y that takes him from the war-torn Ethiopia of his parents' youth to a brighter
vision of his own life in contemporary America, a story - real or invented- that
holds the possibility of reconciliation and redemption.
