{"product_id":"teret-teret","title":"Teret Teret \/\/ A Novel (Pre-order, March 2 2027)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold and singularly funny novel about a young Ethiopian American woman whose twenty-first-century life collides spectacularly with Ethiopian legends that she knows can’t possibly be real, and yet...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Remember when we were children? The storyteller would shout, Teret teret, meaning a tale, a tale, and we would yell back Yelam beret! We didn’t know this meant a cow’s house, just that it rhymed. And then the story would begin.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBelaynesh Tessema, an Ethiopian American journalist working at the independent travel magazine aptly named \u003ci\u003eTrivial Pursuits\u003c\/i\u003e, isn’t exactly pleased when her overbearing boss insists she travel to Washington, DC, to cover a story about a newly incorporated, all-Ethiopian town. When she starts packing to leave, things start to get…strange. First, there are the huge lapses in Belaynesh’s memory and sense of place and time. Perhaps more alarming, she realizes that every morning when she wakes up, she begins the same day again: September 10, 2007, which also happens to be the last day of the Ethiopian calendar year. Or, more to the point, the day before the world is set to end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnter Teret, a talking parrot who reveals an ambitious plan to un-stick time, sending him and Belaynesh deep into the world of Ethiopian mythology. At its center is the star of the apocryphal Book of Enoch, the mysterious Henok, who’s none too happy at the many ways Belaynesh’s arrival on this strange, surreal scene has disrupted the book he’s dedicated his life to composing. As Belaynesh and Teret dodge contemporary reinventions of the book’s grandest flourishes, from fallen angels to time traveling giants, and even Henok himself, Belaynesh learns that sometimes moving forward requires looking back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIrreverently funny and wildly inventive, \u003ci\u003eTeret Teret\u003c\/i\u003e is modern magical realism at its best. It blends some of Ethiopia’s oldest stories with a heroine for our current moment, for a mold-breaking, epic tale about identity, love, and writing new stories when the old ones don’t serve us anymore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eNafkote Tamirat \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis the author of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e The Parking Lot Attendant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which was a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Notable Book, and shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, among other honors. She is a native of Boston and a graduate of the Columbia University MFA fiction writing program. Her short stories have appeared in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e The Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e Best Paris Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, among other places.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublish Date: March 02, 2027\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 224\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eType: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEAN\/UPC: 9780063468382\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W | 0.8 in T | 1 lb Wt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBISAC: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFiction \/ Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends \u0026amp; Mythology, Fiction \/ Magical Realism, Fiction \/ Cultural Heritage, Fiction \/ Fantasy \/ Contemporary, Fiction \/ Visionary \u0026amp; Metaphysical, Fiction \/ Multiple Timelines, Fiction \/ Science Fiction \/ Apocalyptic \u0026amp; Post-Apocalyptic, Fiction \/ Time Travel, Fiction \/ Literary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Nafkote Tamirat","offers":[{"title":"(Pre-order, March 2 2027) Hardcover","offer_id":49440433012971,"sku":"9780063468382","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0253\/4014\/9820\/files\/9780063468382.jpg?v=1789837161","url":"https:\/\/rep.club\/products\/teret-teret","provider":"Reparations Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}